(02-13-2022, 01:54 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(02-13-2022, 01:50 PM)Upper Wrote: Absolutely not for Linderbaum, but if Jameson Williams (or similar) started falling to the 20s...I'd absolutely be trying to trade up for him.

My only problem with that approach is that Williams might not be ready to play until October or so, and may not be quite who he was pre injury, which would exacerbate the effect of trading away those picks to move up to get him.  Of course, if he didn't have the ACL injury, he wouldn't last until the 20s anyway.

But given how the DT from Tennessee recovered so well from his, the idea of trading up for Jameson Williams excites me.

There is certainly some risk, though not a ton I don't think people have been coming back from ACL tears successfully at an extremely high rate for years.

Before his ACL tear and before we moved up to #1 in the draft I was advocating to take Jameson with our pick in the 3-5 range. I would have taken him ahead of Neal or Hamilton or whoever else (Thibs/Hutch were off the board in that scenario). I think he was that good and we need a top shelf playmaker that bad.

The possibility of getting him with our second pick would be too good to pass up, even if there is a little more risk now.

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