Would love if we could draft him somehow. Love the shiftiness, speed and his balance.
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Pair him with Chase/Pitts/Smith/Waddle and the WR corps is completely made over.
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Fill out the line before you fill in the running back. Helps your run game and your QB pass protection. Just my opinion.
And just about anyone who has been watching football knows the O-line is the engine room of the offensive. Without it, a team just drifts around doing basically nothing but punting and watching.mlb1399 likes this. -
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Sure there will be examples where a OL that loses starters and gets shuffled around gets destroyed by a really good DL, but you aren’t going to have 10 absolute studs in the OL rotation to be a brick wall all the time. -
That said, I think we all agree we need a solid OL. But you definitely also need solid skill players. Look at how Diggs helped Allen in Buffalo for instance. We could certainly use a Sewell and/or Humphrey, but running out Gaskin, Parker, Williams and Grant again as our skill guys? No way, that just cannot happen again.
If we do go something like Sewell/Harris in round 1, I would definitely look at dudes like Terrance Marshall and Rondale Moore in round 2. Moore has a huge ceiling as a playmaker, but he's a bit risky with the size and injuries. Ideally, I would add a Corey Davis/Curtis Samuel to start with Parker so a rook isn't coming out of the gate with #1 pressure and expectation. If we go Moore, I'd also target a guy like Nico Collins, whereas if we go Marshall I would look at Eskridge/Atwell. -
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Well something is wrong either with my typing, or my keyboard. OY!
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The benefit of having a solid OL, on top of the aforementioned, is allowing your quarterback more time in the pocket and allowing your receivers to run deeper routes.
I'm not saying you have to have all-pros at each spot but having incompetence or severe sub-average play vs. a marginally talented interior defensive lineman or edge rusher can wreck your entire gameplan. The only time losing a running back is going to effect your gameplan is if you have someone with a rare skillset or you're a one dimensional team.mlb1399 likes this.