(03-15-2024, 04:13 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(03-15-2024, 03:03 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Yeah I'm getting comfortable with trading up for Odunze, staying put for Thomas or waiting until the 3rd round to address it.  I don't like the value for what should be there in the 2nd.  If Legette is there, I'd take him in the 2nd but I suspect he'll be gone.

Trading up for Odunze is my favorite option by far. He's incredible.

After that, I am absolutely ok with pick swapping 1sts with the 49ers for Aiyuk. He's that good.

Right now, the Jags don't have an outside WR that other teams worry about. Gabe Davis and Zay Jones aren't good route runners and have trouble separating.

With Odunze, to me he's the first or second wide receiver off the board.  I like him better than Nabers.  I think the first 3 picks are QBs, then both the cardinals and chargers need WRs bad so I see Harrison and Odunze going there at this moment.  Hopefully one of them views Nabers more favorably. To get someone to come off a top 5 pick requires willingness by the team and probably this years 1 and 2 plus next years 1 or something similar.  If he somehow falls closer to 10 I'm probably trying to aggressively move up.  

That said, I really like Brian Thomas at cost as well if we don't have to move up too much to get him, even better if we stand pat and select him at 17.  If we can stay put and draft Thomas, I'd prefer the cap savings over trading for a guy and having to give him his bag now as well.  We're no slouches at WR right now.  We don't need Thomas or some other rookie to come in and light it up week 1.  It's a long season.  They'll have some time to develop if need be while we rely on other facets of our offense more in the early goings.  I just think Thomas has that WR1 potential like Harrison and Odunze but at much lower draft capital expenditure obviously.

Brock Bowers would be another interesting addition.  I'd run 12 personnel 85% of the time with him and Engram or him and hopefully a more developed version of Strange depending on down and distance.  Think of how that could benefit the run game as well.

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