(02-09-2024, 10:19 AM)Caldrac Wrote: When it comes to Jackson Powers-Johnson. If he's sitting there on the board at pick 17, and, your scouting department, your value board and your coaching staff has come to conclusion, that, he's on par with guys like Jason Kelce, Kevin Mawae, Alex Mack or Travis Frederick, it's an easy decision for me. You take him and you don't lose any sleep over it. You're addressing THE weakest starting point on the entire active roster with an All-Pro caliber player.

If you have any doubts or hesitations within those lines of thinking and reasoning? Next man up on the board. I think this team is [BLEEP]. Regardless of what they do in March. They're going to have to either more than likely:

A. Overdraft players in certain positions.
B. Trade up to get players in certain positions before they're nabbed.

This is the downside of being an average football team. You're not bad enough to have pick of the litter at key positions at the top of the rounds but you're also not good enough to have most of the guess work eliminated for you in the bottom half of the rounds where everything has been weeded out and it's more forgiving if you whiff on a player.

Hopefully the Jaguars will do a good job in free agency so they won't have to reach or trade up to address certain positions of need. The 2 most critical need areas are on the interior of both lines. I'll be disappointed if they don't sign at least 2 new starting players for the lines. My top options are Hunt or Dotson on the offensive side and Wilkins or Reader for the defense. The defensive players are likely to cost more (especially Wilkins) so they may opt to address that in the draft. Receiver and edge rusher would be next in line as far as need areas. No reason they can't address all these areas between free agency and the draft. Releasing Robinson, Scherff, Jenkins and Fatukasi and restructuring Oluakun and D. Williams should enable them to be fairly aggressive in free agency which would include a new contract for Josh Allen.

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