(04-28-2021, 08:47 PM)Ordar Wrote:

(04-28-2021, 08:40 PM)Upper Wrote: Sure, Etienne is a good player who has the misfortune of playing the least important and most fungible position. Freiermuth is just blah while playing the second least important and most fungible position.

Do you not like Friermuth and Toney full stop, or just not that high. Why are people so low on Friermuth? Just the speed? I can’t think of a fast TE... where would you take Etienne if he fell? Does the Lawrence factor itself not make him a safer pick generally?

I just don't think Freiermuth is special in any way. He is living off the baby Gronk nickname and oh we hired his position coach theories. He is not a great blocker, he is not a plus athlete, and I don't think he's a good scheme fit. His hands are very solid I'll give him that. I think in most drafts he's like TE5 and he is getting pushed up this year because this class after Pitts is so bad. I wouldn't take Freiermuth until after our pick at 65. There will be many better players on the board at all times until we go on the clock at 106, in which case I'm sure he'll be long gone.

I don't hate Toney, but I don't think he is a top 6 or 7 WR in this class either. He's just too raw, too limited, and will require too much scheming. He doesn't do virtually anything past the line of scrimmage that is NFL quality. I worry that the crazy just makes his defender miss or just keeps his balance after getting hit will be not quite enough vs 11 NFL caliber players. I don't see anything he does that Rondale Moore doesn't do better. I would take him with pick 65.

Probably the same answer for Etienne, I would take him at pick 65. I like pretty much everything about him except that he is a running back. Using a valuable top 50 pick on a running back when we just proved that you can find a quality one late would be horrible opportunity cost. Not to mention we're a bad team and by time we're good it'll be almost time to give Etienne his big second contract, and we've seen how that is a really bad idea 99% of the time. Just draft someone like Chris Evans in the 5th round to be a tandem partner with Robinson and call it a day.

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