08-15-2021, 09:52 PM
(08-14-2021, 08:38 PM)tms Wrote: Mmm not quite. It was the Ravens, but at the end of R1 (#27, #31).They didn't have a R2.
My preferred outcome by farrr was Sewell and Marshall, but I didn't expect Marshall to make 38. Maybe 33% chance at most. On the mocks I was tracking his average fell somewhere between 30 and 36.
When he was still on the board at 46, even as a fierce proponent of beefing up the trenches, I would have taken him there too lol. Honest to goodness. I would have just gone all-in on the LSU motif and thrown caution to the wind (which we've sort of done anyway with Shelvin, Moss and... who knows who else we have our eyes on). Part of that was out of exasperation for passing on Penei, sure, but it was also BPA. Apart from the injury red flags that clearly hurt him, Marshall was an absolute stud. If we were willing to wait till 46 to address the line, I figured we might as well kick the can again.
It ended up being the worst-case scenario for me when we picked Carman. I didn't have him on the radar at all. He was late-50s at best, and at that point in the draft 10-15 picks is a sizable gap. Even more importantly, there were a good 8-10 OL I had ranked ahead of him that hadn't been picked yet. So it just seemed like a wasted opportunity.
But I don't know anything. The real work begins tonight. I'm excited to see Carman (and Chase) in stripes.
Hmm... I was thinking of the mocks that came before his combine/pro day. That boosted him to where his average mock placement (according to draft database) was 33rd. That said, most mocks weren't accounting for the injury concerns that sprung up prior to the draft.
I was...and that's why I figured he'd be available to us at 38, which tbh wasn't far off of where he was projected prior to knowledge of any injuries.
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