(03-29-2022, 04:00 PM)Mikey Wrote:

(03-29-2022, 09:37 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: With me, it's more about using those picks wisely, no matter how many we have. Why use a draft pick on a RB that will likely be designated to 3rd string once Etienne and Robinson are healthy? Especially when I see many RB's who will be UDFA's and are just as good, if not better than the guys who may be selected after the 4th round. We have a ton of other areas on this team that could be addressed like O-Line, WR, TE, Safety, ILB, edge rusher and even special teams and depth at CB, that may require us to use actual draft picks to secure the best players. I just don't see RB as one of those areas. I'd designate at least 2 picks, maybe 3 to addressing WR and I want one of the better TE's and Centers from this class as well. When you add in that we will be taking an edge rusher at #1, that's 4 early picks already gone. Even though we have 12 picks, we have so many areas that we could improve, we don't have the luxury of selecting certain positions we already are good at. Even if the starters at that position are both coming off season ending injuries. That's just my opinion.

So is it better to darft a WR and cut/PS them and miss out on the RB you feel is the best fit among the undrafted? If we take 3 WR, there's a very good chance two end up waived before the season starts.

Do you honestly consider RB to be a position we are good at? I might agree with "could be good at", but that conditional depends a whole lot on both RBs' recovery and ability to avoid reinjury. I have a lot more confidence in an RB drafted late sticking on this roster than I do any of the WR 'jars on the shelf'.

I guess we agree, it's about using the picks wisely. I just see more wisdom addressing the uncertainty we presently have at RB than at flooding the market with players at a position we've already invested a ton in, whether you like the players there or not.

I think along these lines.  It's better to draft a running back who makes the team versus a wide receiver who gets cut.  Even if there are a bunch of "good" running backs, I find it hard to believe that our scouts don't like some slightly better than the others.  That upgrades our team.  Taking a guy who is cut does not.  Forget about drafting players for the practice squad.  In order to make the practice squad, the Jaguars have to cut the player.  All 31 other teams then have the option of taking the player for their team and leave the Jaguars with nothing.

In regards to wide receiver, NFL teams usually keep six.  Kirk and Z. Jones aren't getting cut with them receiving $37 million and $14 million in guaranteed money.  Agnew makes the team for special teams.  I support taking one wide receiver early.  That leaves Marvin Jones Jr. and Shenault as the final spots we would be expecting those two late round wide receivers to beat out.  No thanks.  Let's take players that make the team.

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