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It's a cliche at this point, but I want the best player available. The last thing I want, especially picking this high, is drafting a solid LT and passing up on an All Pro WR (for example). If they think Parsons is the next Derrick Brooks take him and sort the rest out later. It's rare that a need aligns with the BPA.

I think they like both of them - I also think they tapped them up to get them in the building as early as possible with a bidding war. I'm sure they had an upper limit of what they were willing to pay them - why wait if you've identified two talented guys that you like? Neither one is being paid like a starter.

I'd take an OT in the first and second round. Or better yet, trade down and draft Phillips, then take an OT and something else.

There's simply no way the Front Office think they've addressed OLine with those two signings. They're quality depth players who are going to be given the opportunity to fight for a starting job. Otherwise Darnold is fuged.

If you're willing to take Pitts at #8 you should be willing to take a WR at #8.

He banked $20m last year and looks to do the same this - do you think he has any time to care about what we think about him!?

Oh god, yes please.

Smith was cut because he was the alpha in the locker room and they were trying to pave the way for Newton. He wasn't the force he used to be, but he was still a damn good WR.

They've done something we've never seen in Charlotte - filled the holes on the roster in FA so they can legitimately go out and take the BPA in the Draft. We'll see if they actually follow through with that later this month.

Probably because they like him more than Fields / Lance.

Surprised? No. Disappointed? Yes.

The thing with Pitts is that you have to lump him in with the Smith / Waddle / Chase group. Would you take any of those at #8? Cos essentially he's a big WR. At best he'll play as a Flex-TE for the first few years in the NFL and, quite frankly, you're wasting his skillset if you ask him to play as an in-line TE. He's at his best when you can isolate him out wide against a player and let him use his array of moves to get open. That same array of moves he can't deploy if he starts with his hand in the ground.

I'm sorry.

I really hate the energy Darrisaw plays with.

I don't understand the Sewell love-in. If he was an inch taller and had longer arms I'd understand the whole furore about him, but as he's got very similar measurables to Slater I don't think there's too much separating them as prospects.

6 minutes in they start talking about Carolina / Darnold / #8:

I don't make recommendations on prospects if I haven't seen them play.

I wouldn't touch him with a barge pole I'm afraid. He's one of those picks that if someone takes him and he turns into an All-Pro you just have to shrug your shoulders and applaud. Dude hasn't played football for two years. It's a no from me.

He has the same measurables as Sewell and Slater: 6'5" (actually taller than both), 33" arms, over 300lbs. Some of you were willing to throw the world at his teammate - why wasn't level of competition a concern then? He was also voted the practice player of the week at the Senior Bowl - he more than held his own against the vaunted SEC players.

He's far more potential than many are admitting. His technique needs a lot of work and, to be honest, he doesn't have a prototypical NFL OT build. I'm not saying he's a bad player, but he's not this 'generational' prospect many are making him out to be imo.

Assuming we don't receive a blockbuster offer to trade down, take Sewell / Slater at #8. Double dip in the second round with Radunz / the top OT prospect left on our board. Loser in TC moves inside to play OG. Third round I take the BPA, depending on who falls.

Spot the guy that just watched the SEC last year.

Please back up your claim about me being a 'Miami apologist' with evidence. As for Herndon being a slightly better Thomas, gtfo. Thomas is absolute doggers.

I don't think Leatherwood will be able to handle the speed rushers in the NFL. Roche abused him in the Senior Bowl practices and he's, at best, a third round pick.

He's not an in-line TE. He's wasted if you don't flex him out into space.