03-17-2024, 07:58 PM
(03-17-2024, 06:12 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Hopefully with 4 picks in the top 100 for the first time we produce some starters right away.
Yeah. I was counting on those 4 picks to fill 4 holes.
FA Holes fixed/patched + 2024 cap
1. WR2 (Higgins Tag, $21.8 mil),
2. DT3 Pass rusher (Rankins, $11.9 mil)
3. S upgrade (Stone $6, Bell $1.2, -Scott $2.3)
4. TE (Gesicki $2.5, Sample $4.9, Hudson ???)
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5. Re-signing depth (ADG $2.5, Irwin $2, Ford $1.35, T. Williams ???)
6. Tendering ERFAs: Browning & Adomitis
Still need:
1. Starting RT (Williams gone)
2. Starting quality NT/run stuffer (Reader gone)
3. WR3 (Boyd)
4. CB4 (Chido)
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5. Two-way TE:
6. Starting P
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7. OL depth: IOL&OT
9. LB depth
10. Backup NT
We do have 10 picks. We also have $20 million in cap space. And the potential to add more. We need to take at least 1 of the top 4 off the board, I'd like at least 2 total. Really, more like 3-4.
Maybe they think TE is set now with Sample, Gesicki, & Hudson. And that giving the play away via personnel isn't a big deal.
Maybe they think Hill is CB4 & so we don't need another outside corner.
Maybe they think Gesicki is the Boyd replacement + Jones & Yoshi.
Maybe they think Cody Ford is the cat's meow at OT3.
I think they are dead wrong on all 4 counts. But if that is what they are thinking (on any or all), then we have less needs than we think and we should have been MORE aggressive in bringing in good players (Fuller at 2/$16.5 and Reader were both eminently affordable, Eluemenor at 2/$14).
Anyway, I'd be shocked if the first four are not some combo of OT, DT, WR, and CB. Maybe TE or IOL. Hopefully we can use the $20 mil to take one or two off the board.
