(04-12-2024, 02:43 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(04-12-2024, 02:13 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Who do you want in the first?

Ideally, I'd go tackle and have a tentative deal for Cam already in place to get back into the 3rd or early 4th round.  Outside of that, I don't really care or root for a particular outcome on draft day. I just enjoy watching it unfold and sometimes enjoy watching heads explode.  There are a lot of ways 17 can go that would be good for us.  Corner, Receiver, Center, Tackle.  Though I think I'd prefer trading back if we're going Center.

I just ran a mock on mock draft database and Alt slipped to 17.  We can dream right?

I'll add that the bolded probably applies mostly to the first round as that will influence what we do in the subsequent rounds.  I do rank guys in position groups like I mentioned that I'd prefer Ja'Lynn Polk to Keon Coleman so I would be a little disappointed if we chose Keon in the 2nd with Polk still on the board.  Though I get it if you're specifically looking for a big bodied receiver in the 2nd round as Polk is 2" shorter than Keon.  So I wouldn't be overly concerned but I'd probably be more critical during the season if it was apparent he wasn't clearly the better player pretty quickly and I might prefer opting to go another position in the 2nd and then hope Brendan Rice is still on the board for us in the 4th and be similarly happy with having added a decent sized receiver.

It's more difficult to say this consensus 1st round WR is better than this consensus 1st round DT or whatever positions you want to compare at 17.  When you're comparing very good to great at one position vs very good to great at another position, I don't really have a preference other than maybe take the guy from the position group that is less deep for the remainder of the draft because perhaps you will be fortunate enough to get an almost as good player in the 2nd or 3rd round from the position group you opted not to take in the 1st.

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