(03-29-2022, 09:40 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(03-28-2022, 08:26 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: That may send me over the edge.

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Exactly. Walker is a perfect fit for the Lions who are returning to a 4-3 scheme. Walker was a 3-4 DE. Trying to make him a 3-4 OLB is like teaching him an entirely new position. It would be a terrible move. Hutchinson is the best player in the draft and he has experience as a 4-3 DE and a 3-4 OLB, like where he would play with the Jaguars. I'm hoping these reports are just smokescreens and mis-directions that teams like to put out right before the draft.

How much benefit is there in misdirection when you have the #1 overall pick?  My hope is that the Jaguars are just doing their due diligence on Walker in case trade down opportunities are offered.

Lets other teams know you are considering other players, so if they want to move up, they have an idea of where we want to land in order to make the deal happen?
It keeps the team from being so infatuated with one player, especially in a darft like this year, that they don't put any effort into due diligence on the rest of the field?
If Hutch and Walker have the same agent (or if that agent reps other players in the league), future talks might go smoother if we do Walker a solid and talk him up ahead of the darft.

It's all part of the game.

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