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NFL Draft 2010: Day 3

Interesting pick considering LB seems to be an area of strength. I guess they weren't all that impressed with the top interior linemen or safeties available right now.
 
Ok that's two picks in a row I don't get. I at least got the position, if not the player, in round 3 but why pick an ILB who didn't present over-whelming value? In these rounds, we need to be all about the value. Maybe he will suprise and do well, but it isn't like he is unseating Ryans anytime soon, and Bently is a competent backup.

Again, I don't get it.
 
found this on him:

Darryl Sharpton is one of those guys who doesn't look very good on paper, but when you watch him on the field, it's hard not to be impressed with the guy. Sharpton is undersized, and doesn't have ideal straight line speed (4.78). He also needs some coaching, he needs to better recognize offensive sets, and be more confident with his reads, as he is often late to the play. Also needs to be coached on wrapping up on his tackles better. As mentioned he looks much better on the field than he does on paper, he is quicker than he is fast, is very physical, and does a very good job in coverage. Sharpton's best fit could be in a cover 2 defense, where he will play a lot of zone coverage, and take on fewer blockers, but has experience playing all 3 linebacker positions in a 4-3 defense. Part of the reason why I like Sharpton is because most of his flaws are things that can be fixed with N.F.L level coaching. At the very least, Sharpton will be an effective special teamer. He is a mid round prospect, should go about round 4.
 
Really??? Of all the positions we could use, we get an inside linebacker?

I really hope the Texans' front office knows something that all of the scouting sites don't. Again. I'm serious here - they seem to be picking folks that were "ranked" quite a bit below the spot the Texans took them at. In some cases, you can justify it based on need, but I really don't see how this was one of our needs.
 
Mike LB depth? Maybe special teams player? This is the first Texans pick, I don't quite get this year.
 
rmartin65 said:
Yep. Small, slow. Rated by most to be a 6th or 7th round player. This draft is painful for me to watch.
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The ones I have seen list him as a 4th or 5th rounder. I don't think he's a reach in this round. I just didn't see him as a need. At this point, though, you pick BPA. He's obviously the top guy on their board.
 
TexanBacker93 said:
The ones I have seen list him as a 4th or 5th rounder. I don't think he's a reach in this round. I just didn't see him as a need. At this point, though, you pick BPA. He's obviously the top guy on their board.
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He is a reach when you see the players on the board at positions of need. This was a bad, bad pick. This is the first year where I am negative on the draft, and I dont like the feeling.

This guy is a special teamer. That is it. Too slow to move outside. Wont beat Ryans to start in the middle. We could have taken a backup later in the draft, and taken a FS here.
 
Sharpton has started at every linebacker position for the Canes. The Texans needed some depth at LB, and Sharpton looks like a Diles clone. 4th round? Maybe there were few LBs the Texans liked, so the felt they had to take Sharpton now. Still a lot of FS types left, as well as interior linemen. I'm not going to get bent out of shape over this pick.
 
FWIW, Prisco gives the pick a solid B and says:

Analysis: Sharpton is on the smaller size but he has speed and heart. He has experience at a few different linebacker spots. He can contribute right away on special teams.

Still not liking it. Too many other need areas, and while he might slot as a 4th or 5th rounder, he doesn't present an overwhelming value.

I'm with rmartin. I get the position in round 3, but the guy is raw so not getting the player too well, and now a guy that will rarely see the field outside of ST at a position with decent depth as is.

Scratches head :foottap:
 
rmartin65 said:
He is a reach when you see the players on the board at positions of need. This was a bad, bad pick. This is the first year where I am negative on the draft, and I dont like the feeling.

This guy is a special teamer. That is it. Too slow to move outside. Wont beat Ryans to start in the middle. We could have taken a backup later in the draft, and taken a FS here.
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I disagree that this has been a bad draft I really like the first three picks.

This pick I feel is not a good one, but if the guys I want them to get for OL and FS are there later then this might be a value pick.
 
They just picked up the guy in the 4th, not the 2nd or 1st. He's a Linebacker from Miami, that's not a bad thing. Who knows he might push Diles.

I am still itching for Robert Johnson or a couple C/G's though.
 
I'm a tad mystified by the LB pick, but so far in the draft we've gotten two starters and two decent debth players. Overall I'm still good with things so far, but I really wish they'd have gone with O-line or FS with that 1st 4th round pick.
 
kiwitexansfan said:
I disagree that this has been a bad draft I really like the first three picks.

This pick I feel is not a good one, but if the guys I want them to get for OL and FS are there later then this might be a value pick.
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I am torn on the draft. I liked Jackson, and have accepted Tate. Not wild about it, but I am satisfied.

However, I dislike the Mitchell pick, and I dislike this pick. Back to back dislikes gives me a bad feeling. We still have 5 picks though, so I am not freaking out yet.
 
rmartin65 said:
I am torn on the draft. I liked Jackson, and have accepted Tate. Not wild about it, but I am satisfied.

However, I dislike the Mitchell pick, and I dislike this pick. Back to back dislikes gives me a bad feeling. We still have 5 picks though, so I am not freaking out yet.
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Ya I'm starting to lean towards dislike as well, but I really like the first two picks so..
 
rmartin65 said:
He is a reach when you see the players on the board at positions of need. This was a bad, bad pick. This is the first year where I am negative on the draft, and I dont like the feeling.

This guy is a special teamer. That is it. Too slow to move outside. Wont beat Ryans to start in the middle. We could have taken a backup later in the draft, and taken a FS here.
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I think taking a player at a position of need that isn't very good is a reach. I really don't know the players at this point in the draft well enough to know if any are worth picking here. The best teams draft the best players and don't worry about needs. We're not there, but right now I have to trust in the front office. They know more about the players and what they can bring to the team than anyone on this board.
 
i think sharpton will be a good player, hes been a starter since day 1 at the U, he will push diles and be a good ST player, remember... all the coaches are in the draft room and joe M might have said i really want this guy, please please please. and so they gave him his player, its not always about the offense and defense
 
awtysst said:
Yeah. He is a rotational 3 gap DT that is built for shooting the gaps and being disruptive on the Dline.
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Yep.... and believe it or not McClain has been saying this is the type of DT we are going to be targeting for a while now, not the big fat guy. The purpose is to improve the interior pass rush on 3rd downs.
 
I think the lack of LBs in preseason scared them. Thankfully for us Cushing played through the pain of various injuries during the season or we would've been in a bad way depth wise with Chaun Thompson having gone to IR.

I want OL or DB like the rest of y'all but the Texans FO values positions differently.
 
djohn2oo8 said:
They can't afford to make stupid picks like that in this deep of a draft
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Owen Daniels, Adibi, Glover Quin, Fred Bennett, and Anthony Hill. All 4th round guys. Not saying they are all great or going to be.... but cmon now, thats still a good haul. And thats not even hitting on other late round picks like Zach Diles in the 7th. Lets cut the Texans some slack here, it seems to me they know how to work a draft board.... especially in the later rounds.
 
TheRealJoker said:
I think the lack of LBs in preseason scared them. Thankfully for us Cushing played through the pain of various injuries during the season or we would've been in a bad way depth wise with Chaun Thompson having gone to IR.

I want OL or DB like the rest of y'all but the Texans FO values positions differently.
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Bentley and Adibi are both quality backups aren't they?
 
Porky said:
FWIW, Prisco gives the pick a solid B and says:

Analysis: Sharpton is on the smaller size but he has speed and heart. He has experience at a few different linebacker spots. He can contribute right away on special teams.

Still not liking it. Too many other need areas, and while he might slot as a 4th or 5th rounder, he doesn't present an overwhelming value.

I'm with rmartin. I get the position in round 3, but the guy is raw so not getting the player too well, and now a guy that will rarely see the field outside of ST at a position with decent depth as is.

Scratches head :foottap:
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The Mitchell pick was easy to figure out . They need someone to get a pass rush up the middle . Mario , Smith , Mitchell ( hopefully ) Barwin . Think about the Giants when they won the SB . They have to get to the QB up the middle so he can't step up .

Why Mitchell ... the dude ran the same 10 yd and 20 yard split as Dwyer . Plus he had 6.5 sacks last year , if you look at some names that y'all know that are there ... they didn't have 6.5 in their career .
 
awtysst said:
Please explain to me why exactly this is a "stupid pick." I have yet to see anything about this guy that causes me to think that way.
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They need safety before a linebacker, and they took one of the smallest linebackers available. That was supposed to be a value pick, and there was no value in it
 
awtysst said:
Please explain to me why exactly this is a "stupid pick." I have yet to see anything about this guy that causes me to think that way.
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Yeah, I agree. I think we have other areas of need, but it's not like he wasn't worth a 4th round pick. From what I've been reading about him, he's good for the 4th round, I just wanted another position is all.
 
djohn2oo8 said:
They need safety before a linebacker, and they took one of the smallest linebackers available. That was supposed to be a value pick, and there was no value in it
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The player is a very versatile player who can back up all 3 LB spots and play special teams.

That is a useful player to have on a 45 man roster.

There was no FS who were value picks at that spot, would you rather reach?
 
djohn2oo8 said:
They need safety before a linebacker, and they took one of the smallest linebackers available. That was supposed to be a value pick, and there was no value in it
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Obviously the pros don't agree with you
 
awtysst said:
Please explain to me why exactly this is a "stupid pick." I have yet to see anything about this guy that causes me to think that way.
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Yeah exactly. I mean, after all there were people like me that wanted us to spend one of our 3rds on WR Jordan Shipley and that's not a position of need either.

I guess noone remembers when Diles went down and we had to go with Bentley and Thompson for the rest of the season. This Mike LB gives an opportunity to move guys around if need be.
 
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