I won't quote Bulleye's message in the interest of space.  I mostly agree, but have the following comments:

You say that you don't consider Zay Jones to be an upgrade, but who are you comparing him to?  Chark?  Chark only played 3 full games.  In terms of snaps, he was sixth among our wide receivers.  Our top three wide receivers last year in terms of offensive snaps were:


1. Marvin Jones
2. Laviska Shenault
3. Laquon Treadwell

All three return, although I expect Kirk to upgrade Shenault and Zay Jones to upgrade Treadwell.  I question whether Treadwell even makes the 53 man roster.  I think the Jaguars may cut him in favor of Kevin Austin.  As for Zay Jones, while I don't expect miracles, he does have a low drop rate.  How many times last year were we saying "All I want is a wide receiver who won't drop the ball....."? 

I see three starters from this draft which is better than my original guess of two.  Maybe he doesn't live up to the #1 overall status, but I have no doubt Walker will start.  I also have no doubt that Devin Lloyd will start.  While less certain, I think Fortner will start at center as well.  However, barring injury, I see little chance of Muma getting more defensive snaps than Oluokun or Lloyd this year.

Bartch will very likely be our left guard.  If there was doubt, Pederson basically said it today.  Although Bartch changes from right to left, I don't consider him a new starter.  He played over three times as many snaps last year as Cann and outplayed him.

I do think Cisco beats out Wingard and Little beats our Taylor.

I will say in terms of predictions, I did say that I didn't think we wouldn't acquire our left guard of the future or a safety in the draft.  That was a correct call.

The bottom line is that I see 13 new starters -- 7 free agents (Kirk, Z. Jones, Engram, Scherff, Fatukasi, Oluokun, Williams), 3 returning rookies from last year moving into starting roles this year (Etienne, Little, Cisco) and 3 draft picks from this year (Walker, Lloyd, Fortner).  We also got better depth, some additional role players and better coaching.  I'm hoping for a big step forward this year.

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