(04-10-2018, 06:22 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-09-2018, 08:41 AM)Bullseye Wrote: http://nfldraftscout.com/brugler-3-round...nfl-draft/

The lack of a TE here would be very disappointing.

I just don't see us picking a LB in the first 3 rounds. 

Any linebacker we pick would only play 35% of the snaps at most.   That was Poz's workload last year.  
We don't have any 2019 or 2020 salary cap issues at the LB position, so it's not a long term need either. 

We have 2 kinds of needs-
Immediate starters who would improve us right away- those are OL, TE, maybe WR if it's a 1st round pick.  
And the other kind of need we have is to fill the gaps in 2019 when we have to release some players for cap reasons.  That would be DL or safety.  

I just don't see any big benefit from picking a LB that high in the 2018 draft. 

And I echo what some others have said- these national pundits don't know our team half as well as we do.  (And some of them don't even care.)  That's why they're off base so often.