Tyler Warren

[KaijuGato]

Tyler Warren =

[PNW_PantherMan]

3 hours ago, Bear Hands said:

Fo sure.  

Where I'm kind of leaning w/our first:

With this high of a pick, stepping back, big picture, you want a guy that can straight up elevate their side of the ball and change the way the opposition needs to play us. That's the bottom line for me.  It's what we wanted with Bryce of course, Brown, Horn, etc. when drafting this high.  Icky had the question marks in pass blocking but we had a 5+ year running need when we landed him.  

The defenders people are considering can be really nice, sure, potentially all-pro pieces (Walker, Johnson, Pearce, etc.) but are we getting a guy that a defense needs to immediately account for on every snap? Or are you banking on some potential actualizing? Is there any lack of sure-thing with translating to the NFL, or additional refinement needed?  When you're banking on those factors high in the draft, that's where the busts can come from IMO.  I.E. Johnson has press-man coverage questions (Surtain/Horn did not have those concerns), Walker with his size/down-to-down role, and Pearce needing some run-d technical refinement.     

But with Warren, you drop him in, I think the offense entirely changes.  And the way people need to play us entirely changes as well.  And I don't see anything technically that needs more hands-on coaching required.  

It's appealing.  Not entirely there yet, but if a team is sold on him, I'm seeing the why.  

 

A lot of huddlers would rather reach on an edge that would go late 1st or early 2nd in a normal draft class, instead of taking the biggest impact player that falls to 8.

Would I normally draft a TE at 8?  Of course not.  But this isn't a normal situation.  The top of this class is not only thin, but relatively weak.

[jayboogieman]

2 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

A lot of huddlers would rather reach on an edge that would go late 1st or early 2nd in a normal draft class, instead of taking the biggest impact player that falls to 8.

Would I normally draft a TE at 8?  Of course not.  But this isn't a normal situation.  The top of this class is not only thin, but relatively weak.

I agree with almost everything in this post. The difference is I would take a TE at 8 in a normal draft if I thought he was a dynamic playmaker.

[raleigh-panther]

I believe Morgan mentioned Warren in his presser

…could be bobbing for a trade down with that bait…who knows