(11-03-2023, 01:36 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(11-03-2023, 01:13 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: Stick to your board!

If RB is the highest rated player when the Jags pick in round 1, you have to take the RB!

At this point, if that happened, with Etienne and Bigsby already on the team, I'd try to trade down.  

My philosophy would not be strict best available player and it wouldn't be strict positional value.  I would use a combination.  The value of the player is a combination of talent level and positional value.  So if I had a RB that I rated slightly better than another player who was a DE, I might take the DE.  I liked the Etienne pick because even though he played a less valuable position, his talent level was sky-high.

This. Logic supersedes value on the board if that value is already met on the roster and then some at said position. We're set with Etienne, we invested a 3RD in Bigsby, we have Hasty onboard for two years and we signed Johnson in the off season. 

Unless you plan on cutting Lawrence's pass attempts roughly in half per game and running a two back system that calls for a total of close to forty touches per game? There's no reason to continue to add onto that position at the moment. 

You either, like you said, shoot for a trading partner to get more picks or you take the next best player that fits the team best overall in value. It was hard enough convincing this fanbase in March and April of this year that anything outside of offensive lineman, defensive lineman and a nickel corner were needed from this draft. 

I highly doubt anybody had TE (Maybe a little bit because of the Engram situation) and RB high on their personal wish list. And, based on the fact that our offensive line continues to struggle and we only have one primary sack contributor in Allen? It looks like TE and RB were treated with "luxury" picks that really didn't maximize the value and needs of the team at the time.

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