Today on 1010 xl, Gus Bradley joined Mike Dempsey and discussed the Jaguars draft.  One particular comment he made was regarding "a couple of players (the Jaguars) targeted went off the board right before our pick."  I decided to pull up which players went off the board right before our pick to see who he might have been talking about.  I left out the picks where we traded up as we were obviously going up for a specific player in those situations.  Here they are:

 

 

 

Greg Robinson OT went before Bortles in Round 1.  Doubtful he was coveted as much as Bortles per reports.

 

Austin Seferian-Jenkins TE went before Lee in Round 2.  It's possible they were thinking TE here and WR in the third or trading back up into the 2nd like they did.

 

Andre Williams RB went before Colvin in Round 4.  It's possible they were thinking RB earlier in the draft and had Andre taken out from under them.  Though if they are confident Colvin will recover fully, then this was apparently very good value here.

 

Kadeem Edwards OG went before Telvin Smith in Round 5.  I would say this is doubtful that we would covet another guard after trading up for one earlier in the draft though who knows.

 

Caraun Reid DT went before Chris Smith in Round 5.  I suppose it's possible Reid might have been equally valuable to us, though we hadn't taken anyone to play LEO in this draft prior to this point so perhaps not.

 

Tyler Gaffney RB went before Luke Bowanko in Round 6.  Again, it's possible we were looking to address the RB position prior to Round 7.  It sounds like Brewster is the front runner to start at Center this year but that will play itself out in training camp and the pre-season, but this seems like one of the more likely picks that Bradley may have referenced as having a targeted player gone right before we picked.

 

Randall Johnson OLB went before Storm Johnson in Round 7.  Not sure about this one.  People here seem high on Storm Johnson but that could just be because he's now a Jaguar.  He had some odd tweets about haters hating on people changing and then said he worked too hard not to change.  My first thought was that he's assuming he's arrived and will be paid even though 7th round picks are far from guaranteed to make the team.  I could be wrong in my interpretation so I'll withhold judgement and continue hoping things work out for him.  Either way, I wonder if the Jags were equally high or even higher on Randall Johnson.

 

 

 

I'm sure the front office is happy with the draft as of right now.  Sure, we'll never know with certainty if Bradley was just talking in generalities or whether he had specific picks in mind where a guy we might have taken went off the board right before our pick, but the comment was still interesting and might be fun to speculate over.  Who do you think he might have been talking about?

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