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Draft Update: Players to watch for the Bowl Games today.

Bj-Monster23

By Bj-Monster23,
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Mother Grabber Grand Master

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Here's an idea...OSU's Quinn Sharp does all their kickoffs, placekicks, and punts. Although he's a junior, he's projected as high as 6th round if he comes out. He has 20 more touchbacks than the next best kicker (and that's kicking from the 30...he'd be 5 yards closer in the NFL). Ranked 2nd in nation in punting with 46+ yard average. Waive Jason Baker and Olindo Mare...draft Sharp and sign John Kasay as a FA. Sharp does kickoffs and punts....Kasay does placekicks and trains up the young grasshopper to eventually take over.

Sounds like a plan.

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This is no way an indi.ctment to draft Blackmon if he fell to us but just keep in mind that we are several months out before the NFL Draft and A LOT can change between now and draft day. Remember las year when some us were actually thinking Patrick Peterson or Marcell Dareus would be the #1 pick or who would have thought that Von Miller would go #2? So fact is, as we get closer, we should know where teams stand

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Here's an idea...OSU's Quinn Sharp does all their kickoffs, placekicks, and punts. Although he's a junior, he's projected as high as 6th round if he comes out. He has 20 more touchbacks than the next best kicker (and that's kicking from the 30...he'd be 5 yards closer in the NFL). Ranked 2nd in nation in punting with 46+ yard average. Waive Jason Baker and Olindo Mare...draft Sharp and sign John Kasay as a FA. Sharp does kickoffs and punts....Kasay does placekicks and trains up the young grasshopper to eventually take over.

Kasey is gone, let it go people......leggo

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Kasey is gone, let it go people......leggo

You've missed the point. This isn't about some sentimental love of Kasay. If you want to substitute another kicker, by all means, offer a better alternative. Or maybe you'd like to keep the status quo?! BTW that'd be Baker/Mare for a small fortune and so-so performance.

Such a plan as I laid out means you're just taking two roster spots; you're playing the strengths of a young multi-purpose kicker/punter - kickoff touchbacks, excellent punting skills, and good placekicker in his own right. Then you have the experienced high percentage veteran to serve as a mentor. The vet keeps the pressure of critical placekicks off the rookie til he's more experienced.

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Dareus has been a stud in Buffalo, would have been a good pick.

Blackmon is my dream pick.

Hell, I'd mortgage another pick to land both Blackmon and Morris/Kirkpatrick

It'd probably take more than 1 more pick to land both. We could likely get Kirkpatrick with our pick (not that I'd want to, from what I've seen so far) but to get Blackmon from scratch (not using our 1st this year to move up) it'd probably take our next two 1sts to get a high 1st this year. No thanks. To move up to take Claiborne and trade enough to get Blackmon too, the cost of that is unimaginable.

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