Nope.
First pick will be WR or OLB. Book it!
Oh God no. Kubes likes TE's in the 4-5th round. First round is 50-50 LB, WR.
This is ridiculous.
Here's the big picture. Our depth at nearly all positions sucks!!!! Any injury to a starter this year and there will be a big drop off. We had good solid depth last year but they are all starters this year.
All I have been reading is how we have to draft a WR with one of our first two picks. How loosing Mario Williams means we need to add an OLB really early. Actually they are probably our two deepest positions behind QB and RB.
We are going to be fine as far as our starting units go, it's depth when our starters go down thats going to hurt us. We don't have much money for FA though I'm sure we will find a way to add a little depth here and there but our main focus on getting this team up to par depth wise will be via the draft. We will not be able to draft depth at every position so forget that line of thinking.
The early rounds of this draft need to be BPA that can come in and make the most impact followed by purely BPA.
We are weak in nearly every position depth wise.
WR is actually one of the least weak positions
JOHNSON, ANDRE Jones, Jacoby Jean, Lestar Iglesias, Juaquin
WALTER, KEVIN Maehl, Jeff Holliday, Trindon
LB's Inside is weak but Bramen and Nading aren't as bad as some of the backups at other positions.
LOLB 57 Nading, Jesse
LILB 97 Smith, Derrell
RILB 54 Alexander, Mister
ROLB 50 Braman, Bryan
Now take a look at the other positions depth.
FB Casey?
TE A lot depends on what they intend to do with Casey. I don't see them moving him back to TE after letting Vickers go. Graham has been a non factor since we drafted him. Why all the sudden anyone thinks he is going to become something is beyond me.
OL The depth here sucks. Which of these guys do you feel comfortable with starting?
LT 75 Newton, Derek
LG 61 Austin, Thomas
C 79 Wallace, Cody
RG 71 Smith, Shelley
RT 66 Gardner, Andrew
DL The depth here sucks. Again, Any of our starters go down we are in deep doodoo!
LDE 91 Harris, Sunny
NT 92 Mitchell, Earl
RDE 96 Jamison, Tim
Secondary Nolan and McCain are solid backups the rest are blah.
LCB 26 Harris, Brandon 36 Carmichael, Roc
SS 31 Keo, Shiloh
FS 33 Nolan, Troy 42Williams, Torri
RCB 21 McCain, Brice 22 McManis, Sherrick
The point is we need depth all over the place and WR while not a strength is not as depleted as some other positions. OLB is solid as far as our starters go and the depth has some talent. Fleener would do more for this offense and team than any OLB or WR we could get at 26. Think how beneficial it would be to have a 6'6" TE with great hands out there on 3rd and long or in the red zone.
Not to mention OD's injury history and large contract. Egnew in the 3rd or 4th might be an option as well. Other than them two I haven't really seen anyone that has impressed me a whole lot at TE.