Wide Receiver is simultaneously BPA and biggest need in the 2nd.

[mick eye]

There is always an argument for taking BPA over needs or vice versa. But when you are in the enviable position that the BPA will likely fill your biggest need it would take someone pretty dense to frick it up. Yet, there seems to be a school of thought that QB, DT, or DE are bigger needs than WR.

We may have a chance at The Golden Calf of Bristol or McCoy with our pick and i have seen several mocks that had us taking StickBoy Pike. All are hardly the best player available or a need for us.

The other popular opinion is since we have no huge names on our dline anymore and that Everette Brown is undersized and a waste of our 1st that we need a DE or DT. This opinion is held by those that think Peppers is irreplaceable. The fact is Dlineman will go fast and furious this year. With the DE/DT's, DE/OLB's and NT's in high demand. The best players we can hope for to slide to us are Tyson Alualu, Lamar Houston, Corey Wooton and Austen Lane.

I am insisting that even if the top 6 receivers go before us we will still have a chance at someone in the top 10 that fits our needs. A DT, QB, or DE is not gonna bring the value of a WR capable of returning kicks. WR and return game is a perennial weakness. A WR will give Moore another weapon, shorten fields for Double Trouble and take pressure off Smith.

A QB taken that early will shake Moore's confidence that it is in fact his team. Cause a QB controversy and divide the locker room. A DE is a luxury since we have CJ,EBrown and Brayton. DT IMO is not even a need with the depth and youth we have there.

[Panthers128]

You don't want to take Dwayne Jarrett just because he's there and you need a WR. BPA makes more sense to me, but I see where you're coming from. Maybe trade the pick for multiple picks if the WR they want isn't there or is lower?

[rayzor]

the BPA will be the best player available...not just best WR available. it could be a DE, DT, WR, QB, LB ....doesn't matter.

we won't know who is going to be available when our pick comes up until our pick comes up. i surely hope they aren't solely focused on getting a WR in the 2nd just because that is the perceived biggest need. if there happens to be some future stud that drops unexpectedly that isn't a WR then we should take him.

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

BPA's are the guys that are percieved as future difference makers in the league. You don't pass up a good deal regardless of what your looking for. Hence the reason why we spent a first rounder to get JStew and then traded back into the first round to get Otah. Oline was our big need in that draft, yet Stewart was the percieved difference maker that fell to us.

[mick eye]

Let me spell it out for ya. I think a WR will be both the BPA and the biggest need when we draft. I spelled it out why DE, DT and QB are reaches and who i think will be available. I guess i will go through the rest of the positions.

FB and K are not 2nd round picks obviously. Some may want a OLB, i figure the same people that are not satisfied with our DLINE are the same that think James Anderson and Connor need MORE competition. There are talented OLB in the draft to be had (Bowman, Watson, Edds,) but unless somehow Sean Weatherspoon falls i don't see value. A argument for a Safety or Cornerback could be made if we had not done so well drafting depth and starters there. So really who is this wunderkind prospect you think is gonna be there? Are you guys seriously looking at a TE over a WR? I am telling you NOW if we stay where we are at Wide Receiver will be BPA.

[mick eye]

BPA's are the guys that are percieved as future difference makers in the league. You don't pass up a good deal regardless of what your looking for. Hence the reason why we spent a first rounder to get JStew and then traded back into the first round to get Otah. Oline was our big need in that draft, yet Stewart was the percieved difference maker that fell to us.

Your argument is flawed bud. You know why cause we took Stew then traded back up to get Otah. We took BPA then traded back up to take a need. If you think a WR/KR can not be percEIved as a difference maker then i have no hope for ya.

[ItsNotGonnaBeAlright]

Your argument is flawed bud. You know why cause we took Stew then traded back up to get Otah. We took BPA then traded back up to take a need. If you think a WR/KR can not be percEIved as a difference maker then i have no hope for ya.

I have no idea what you're talking about, but here try this:

Always focus on best player available, regardless of team needs. Never assume that the two are one and the same. If they are, great. If not, go with the better player.