Quote:If that's the case (which it is)  - coupled with the decreased practice times after the new CBA, then my point is even stronger:  Don't waste your top 5 pick on a tackle!

 

 

Draft a couple in rounds 2-4 and I guarantee you, your chance of finding serviceable play is going to be good.

 

We should draft a lineman in every year in the mid rounds.  

You draft players where you find them.  It was pretty much the consensus pick in 2013 that Joeckel was the best player to pick in that position.  That says more about the lack of quality in that draft than it does about the lack of insight from the front office. 

 

I agree that the team needs to continue drafting lineman to bolster the depth and to possibly identify potential starters.  Based on what they did in the draft this year, I think that's pretty much the approach they're taking, and we've got 2 rookies starting as a result. 

---