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Steelers just paid big for DK to pair with Pickens. You need talent in the WR room. XL is a more natural Z receiver with some crazy speed for his size. Tet is a legit X who you play like Evans or Higgins. You can put XL in that role but he is better served as a Z IMO. Coker is the slot that replaces AT and relieves him throughout the year. Both XL and Tet were solid YAC receivers as well in college.

I'm pretty sure like 90% of top rated college WRs are being "force fed" the ball. Especially when they are the best player on the field by a mile. So the entire defense knows what is coming but can't stop them. That's part of what makes them great right?

Then Colorado was a dumb team for not keeping Hunter on him. He went out and got over 100 yards and a TD. You’re telling me they didn’t have Hunter shadow the best player on Arizona by a mile? That’s some shitty coaching…

XL is our Z we can move around. I don’t think Tet is a threat to him. They both will be on the field together. Tet at X, XL at Z, AT and Coker at slot.

Strange for a WR who “can’t get separation.”

Brugler seems high on him. Even mentioned us in a mock for him.

We certainly didn’t telegraph our pick like previous drafts. We also didn’t trade down for lesser value.

Coker is a slot, Tet is a X, and XL can play the Z.

All the trade down rumor frustrations and everyone knowing who we were picking was for nothing

And one VERY happy one.

We all know you love gonorrhea…

I think the last tweet said we didn’t want to drop too far back. Probably hard to gain the value back.

Yeah the Moehrig use is what several of us were saying. He will be moving all around the box to exploit weaknesses. I’ve read how important that can be to Evero’s defense. It’s why we gave him that contract (probably an overpay), but he is needed.

Yep and Carter only played edge for one year and isn’t good vs the run

It’s definitely a bad draft for top end talent. Which is why trade ups won’t fetch what they normally would.

Is Jeanty better than Hampton? Warren better than Loveland. Warren only showed production one year, Jeanty played weak competition and looked average in the playoffs. I’m just saying they all have flags.

And if these scouts have several positional players with close grades like people are claiming?

Normally yeah but I’m not sure there is a “surest thing” at pick 8 in this bad draft. They all seem pretty flawed.

There are always going to be some great players even in the middle rounds that teams missed or looked over. I don’t think that changes much. Sometimes the right players land in the right spots and make other teams look dumb.

One pick is easier to miss than 2 or 3 is the thought process there. Yeah you have to assume they will figure it out and if they can’t there is no need to worry about moving up down or staying in place. We would just need to worry about who would replace them.

I understand that but I’m just saying this draft is pretty bad all around. Pick 8 isn’t much better than a later 1st unless one of the very few blue chippers fall. You have to assume they make decent picks to some degree, if not then there is no need to worry about any of it. If we are that bad at drafting we can easily screw up pick 8 as bad as pick 15 plus an additional 2nd.

We’ve been teary eyed for a loooong time. If we honestly think our staff can’t evaluate talent then who cares if we trade down? More odds to simply get lucky right? Even a pessimistic view agrees with this….

Agreed. It’s a weird draft. Not a great one for top 10 picks…

I’d love this. If we could add a FS (maybe the Virginia guy) and sign Blackmon our roster would feel so much more complete.

Except the high picks this year are almost all mid to late picks in most drafts. Ward is what QB4 last year? Hunter and Graham seem solid, but outside of that the LSU OT might be an OG, Jeanty played in a weak division and isn’t much better than Hampton, Carter looks good but only played edge one season and is weak against the run, Walker is undersized and has one year of good production, you could go on and on. We just saw us with pick 1 two drafts ago.