Way Too Early Pan Me Mock December 16

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(12-20-2024, 01:19 AM)Whatever Wrote: 2 FA's, a 2nd rounder, a 3rd rounder, and 2 Day 3 picks is complete overkill when you usually only have 2 S's on the field and they hardly rotate.  You're also typically only going to see a S covering at CB in an emergency.  Not to mention, by the same logic, DT's are just DL, so that's not overkill.

You were saying you wanted another S signed in FA, in addition to the one you want to draft high.  And Watts or whoever will have to beat out your FA, Battle, plus Anderson and Anthony in '26 to meet your goal.

Hill played 47% of the defensive snaps in '21.  That's a lot more than "just a handful of snaps".  That's basically half the game on defense.  

Besides which, again, a good pass rush will make a suspect secondary look good.  A good secondary won't do the same for the DL.  

But you're not talking about 2 FAs, a 2nd rounder, a 3rd rounder, and 2 Day 3 picks strictly at the safety position.
You're talking about a more broad position that has 5 starter spots and 10 overall spots at DB.

To me, CBs and safeties are not interchangeable, neither are DEs and DTs.
There needs to be a good blend of veterans and draft picks at about every position, in my view.

You COULD put a DT at DE, but just like trying to put a safety at CB, it probably won't work in many situations.

At the end of the day, you personally want to invest a 1st and 2nd rounder at DT when they already added a 2nd rounder and 3rd rounder to DT last year.
That's your prerogative.
I'm simply stating that's not something I agree with or prefer.
Given the state of some of the other positions like DE, SAF, OL, or pass catcher, I'd rather see one of those DT picks go toward a different position unless the other players at the other positions were so bad that I'd feel I'd have to go DT again.