pick 33 big board

[BengalChris]

(04-04-2020, 11:21 PM)McC Wrote: Yep.  That's exactly what you're looking for.   And if somehow that doesn't happen, you're looking for the intersection of need and talent.  If that somehow doesn't happen, that's when you have a bidding war for a trade.

They're in the catbird seat.

They certainly are.

If I were to pick some needs at this spot, then I'd say LB (for obvious reasons), WR (someone who can actually provide competition to Ross and possibly be AJ's eventual replacement), a pass catching TE (maybe the team feels Sample is the guy, but Burrow will need a quality target at the position - I don't know anything about the TEs in this draft though) or potentially an upgrade at RT.

Those are the positions of biggest need that I see. You could add OG to that list as well, as Michael Jordan is far from a sure thing.

What I'd prefer not to see happen is the team trade back, then overdraft someone that they talked themselves into, a la Drew Sample, and then draft projects with the extra picks they got. That 2nd round pick should be someone who can win a starting job, not give us a few warm bodies that'll take a season or two to develop, if they develop at all. The 2nd round in 2019 netted TE Drew Sample, DT Wren and RB Williams, none of which produced much of anything. Maybe they will some day, maybe they won't.