Devin White

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(01-10-2019, 12:30 PM)YsCascadia Wrote: Great Answer.  However if Ford is really as good as you are projecting him to be, then maybe he should be our 1st round pick.  I don't think he will make it to the 2nd based off of what you have stated.  However there is a chance he does make it to us in the 2nd and I can see your point in taking a guy that definitely won't be there.

I am not sold on Devin White though.  Will he be a 1st rounder?  Yep.  Will he make it to us in the 2nd?  Nope. 

I am not saying that.  What I am saying is that White strikes me as a guy that we select in the 1st round and then doesn't perform to the 1st round expectation.  Very important to understand that I don't think White will be terrible and not be productive.  However a 1st round LBer needs to be a game changer.  I don't see White as a game changer.  I wouldn't hate the pick, but I wouldn't love it either.

Here is a draft profile on him.

https://thedraftnetwork.com/2019/01/05/2019-nfl-draft-player-profile-devin-white/

Talks about a lack of balance and foot work.

While not flashy, I am solely an OLine guy.  I don't care who your LBers are if you have a good / great OLine, you will have success in this league.  OLine to me was worse than LBer (though we do need to address LBers, which I would do in FA), and hell I am so crazy about OLine guys that I would even invest 3 rds to OLine players.  Williams in the 1st, Little or Ford in the 2nd and if the other fell to us in the 3rd (it could happen) grab them.

Odds of missing on OLine is less than on LBer, however we HAVE missed on OLine recently, which is not surprisingly the main reason we have lost many of our games, so I wouldn't mind getting those 3 guys and if they all pan out, you have a great OLine for the next few years, if not, then 1 should at least be serviceable.  Try again next year.

We seem to go FA for LBers more than OLine or at least willing to PAY more for LBers than OLine, so using the draft to get OLine help and FA for LBers would be the way to go.  

I completely understand you're point. But it's not a lack of balance it's a lack of contact balance which is really not a worry to me. In the article it states pro bowler is the floor and his best attribute is an imposinf player over the middle. Basically he's burfict but without the dirty hits and he always goes for the strip. What we've been missing is a elite blitzing lber that can also she'd blocks in the run game. Thats what he brings. As far as oline I believe in westerman. But even if u don't I don't believe Ford is a will Hernandez level player which is why he would make it. And then Lindstrom if we have to trade back up into the second. But Just improving the rg spot would drastically improve the oline as u can out a te by rt and be done with it. But we have to get an elite lber. If we got Mosley in free agency and then draft white to pair with ford and lindtrom in addition to price finally being healthy we'll have a top 10 oline. But lber has to be addressed first bc after the top 2 there is nothing. Where as okkne there is solid options throughout.