(04-30-2021, 12:07 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(04-30-2021, 12:03 PM)scottyg Wrote: What if Robinson isn't better.  What if ETN can do everything that Robinson can do, but has breakaway speed on top of it?  Meyer really likes to spread things out and use RBs in a variety of ways, so having more than one good one could be a very good thing for his offense.
Personally, I would have preferred something other than RB at that spot, but what if ETN is the next MJD?  Is he worth pick 25 then?

Not if he blows a block assignment and gets TL broken in half.

Not if one of our crappy OTs that could have been upgraded by using a few of our draft picks to trade up gets him broken in half.

Protecting TL should be the priority.. not giving him people to hopefully throw the ball to when he's running for his life.

But we could still upgrade one of our crappy OTs, right?

Guys that many of us were hoping we'd take at 25 (Jenkins, Eichenberg, even Radunz) are still on the board at 33, and may even be on the board at 45.  Isn't it true that a guy like Spencer Brown or Jalen Mayfield could be taken at 65 and still upgrade Taylor at RT?

I don't suggest you do not have legitimate concerns.  Etienne was not my top choice at 25.  If I had my way, I would have taken Jenkins.

But I'm not understanding your logic.

If we drafted Jenkins at 25 and he blows a block assignment, would TL be any less broken in half?  Would that one missed assignment render Jenkins a bad pick?  For that matter, if Trevor Lawrence does not identify a blitzer pre-snap, does not adjust the blocking, and he gets blasted by the defender and gets himself knocked out of the game, would that have made his selection a mistake?

Should Dallas being bad enough to post a 1-15 record in 1989 precluded them from drafting Emmitt Smith in 1990?  Should Indy finishing 3-13 in 1998 precluded them from drafting Edgerrin James in 1999?  What of the Chargers in the early 2000s drafting LaDanian Tomlinson?  Why does a team need to be complete before drafting a RB high?  Why can't a highly drafted RB make a team more complete?

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