(04-29-2023, 09:28 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Will Mallory or Zack Kuntz would be nice additions to the TE room. Kuntz is basically that long striding receiving option everybody wanted in Washington.

AT Perry, Xavier Hutchinson and Kayshoun Boutte are there at WR if we absolutely want one for whatever reason.

Bradford, Zavala, Broeker and Vorhees at OG. Jones, Warren, McClendon and Kirkland at OT.

Adebawore, Brooks, Lacy and McGuire at DE. Matlock, Roy, Wooden, Clark and Coburn at DT. Herbig and Abdullah as tweener rushers at OLB.

Plenty of CB and S options left that can fill the nickel role and challenge Herndon as well.

RD4 is where Baalke earns his stripes today. I mean that. These have to be guys that can not only rotate early as rooks but develop into full timers starting in 2024.

They did their homework. A lot of these names above were slotted to go in RD1, RD2 and RD3 by the mock community and here they are in RD4 still with four picks at their disposal to land them.

Looks like they know what the [BLEEP] they're doing and some of you need to relax.

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I love your positivity on this year's draft. There are still several good players available who were supposed to be taken earlier. Of the names you mentioned, I could see Adebawore and Brooks as likely pass rush targets. My favorite nickel left is Phillips; there must be some reason he has dropped so far other than his height. 

My major complaint is not moving up for Branch in round 2. Baalke said he tried, but he could have done this with a slightly better offer. Despite his lack of speed to play outside corner, Branch would have been a very good nickel this season before becoming an all-pro safety replacing Jenkins in 2024. They will regret not doing this in a few years. I wasn't quite as upset about moving back and missing out on Torrence. He dropped so far that there may be some health concerns we are not aware of. Either that, or he doesn't fit our scheme. I still believe adding him to the line with the addition of Harrison would have been the right move. His run blocking skill is undeniable.

Bottom line, we have to have faith that Pederson and Baalke knew what they were doing and the players they took were the best fits for their system. It's hard to be critical of anything Pederson has done to this point so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on the Strange and Bigsby selections. Time will tell which of our opinions were right or totally wrong.

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