(04-18-2023, 02:27 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-18-2023, 01:37 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Nope

That's not how this team is gonna draft TE this year. Too many positions of greater value with more urgent need - and too many easy ways to skin a cat on keeping the TE position behind Engram viable. 

They aren't taking a TE in the first round unless they know damn well they don't plan on working a deal with Engram. 

Top of the board and best player available tropes and clichés can be damned. That would be a seriously unwise usage of draft capital.

What we have in hand can cause plenty of nightmares for defenses. Fix the damn lines.

I said 1st or 2nd.  Or possibly 3rd or 4th it just depends on how the draft falls.  I don't see us reaching for oline in the 1st just because it's a bigger need.  With that said I dont think TE will be BAP in the first.  There isn't a TE in the draft I'd take over Torrence.  If oline is at the top of the board they will grab one but I think they stick to their board.

Draft boards` are guidelines. 

Baalke isn't Moses and the board isn't the Ten Commandments. 
Every pick is open for discussion, collaboration and movement. 
None of it is set in stone on draft day. 

Also - why did you assume drafting OL in the first would be a reach?? 
There are at least 5 OL drafted in the first round every year.  Not a stretch to think a linemen is available at our pick who doesn't constitute a reach.

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