(04-28-2021, 05:56 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-27-2021, 08:56 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote: I'm one of the few that don't see wide receiver as being a big need.  I think it's one of our strongest positions.  Even if a team has 6 wide receivers on the roster, they usually only activate 5 on game day.  I think D.J. Chark, Marvin Jones Jr. and Laviska Shenault makes a good starting trio.  I think Chark and Shenault will look much better with a good quarterback.  Jamal Agnew will also be activated due to his skills as a returner where he is a former first team all-pro.  That leaves Collin Johnson as the other active wide receiver.  If we draft someone early, we're pushing Johnson to being a game day inactive.  I would like to see if Johnson can develop.  Also, how much playing time would a draft pick at wide receiver get?  He would be sharing the position with Chark, Jones and Shenault.  Are we really wanting to send one of them to the bench?  Maybe I'm over-rating our existing wide receivers, but why not give it a year to find out?  We can't fix everything in one year, so why not start with positions where we know for a fact that we are weak?

We aren't drafting for need, we are drafting for value and taking the best player, the right way to do it.  If a WR is at the top of our board when it's our pick we will take him

Every team drafts for both. And don't bother bringing up the Arians article because I've already seen it. EVERY team drafts both BAP and need.

There comes a point in the draft, especially after the first 2 rounds where guys are definitely lumped into tier groups. Having multiple guys on the board that you have graded in the same tier = need is definitely going to be a factor in the decision making. 

AKA, There's a WR and CB on the board that you like in the 3rd round and they have the same grades on them. CB is the bigger need though, so where do you think the team is going to lean? For the need of course.

What if round 2 starts on Friday and one of the QBs slid. Lets just say it's Trey Lance for this example (highly unlikely, but it's just an example). We already took Lawrence #1, but nobody seen Lance falling that far and we have him as the highest graded player on the board to start day 2. Do you take him just because it's your BAP? No, of course you don't. You try and work a trade or take somebody else. etc etc.

EDIT: You could use the above example for pick 25 etc, but the point remains.

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