Evening all. Just getting caught up with round 1 and the preview to day 2. As ever thanks to everyone for posting and the mix of views, makes for a much more involved feel for the evening for those of us keeping an eye on things from afar than just checking the draft tracker first thing in the morning and seeing the picks in list form. The board never let's us down 
To add to the general discussion (and I appreciate some of these opinions have already been expressed by others) but...
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1: Brian Thomas - happy. Not the flashiest pick Baalke could have made, but it's a pick with more and more upside the more you look at it. He clearly offers something else to our wide receiver room, and if the kid works out, his qualities should hopefully by proxy make Kirk, et al and their production next season better as well. Fair enough it's the same position, but improving two or three players with one pick hopefully. I can't knock that.

2: Personal preference but i always prefer picking players with production at college level. Appreciate front offices want to pick players with potential/ceiling/upside/room to improve etc ... Call it what you want, but there's a lot to be said for lads who just get the job done in my opinion. 17 touchdowns. Thumbs up! Fella, knows his way to the endzone! That'll do for me!

3: No problems with the trade. Think we've done well .... But then I thought we'd done well after day one last year and it all started to slide through the porthole. Ne-yan gets it right every time but making the same mistakes twice in a row is the sort of craic that gets folk fired. And in fairness the noises coming out are pretty positive, and sound like they took on board what happened last year ... So hoping for a good day 2!

4: Again still personal preference but we've enough developmental prospects from last years draft and hopefully a useful UDFA or two this year..Personally I'd be throwing everything we've got in rounds 5-7 and trying to get up into rounds 3/4 to try and find the odd starter there.

5: One or two obvious positions of need still to address, a cornerback especially would be nice but if it doesn't fall our way ... If in doubt ... Draft a big man!

6: Christ on a bike but if we draft a RB in round 3 I'll be mailing out bleach!

Enjoy the night guys and gals, and here's hoping Trent drafts like the second coming of Ozzie Newsome!

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