Burkhead Making A Strong Impression in New England

[Benton]

(06-09-2017, 01:38 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Burkhead and Andre Smith both have just above a $3 mill cap hit.
So would you rather...
1) Let Burkhead walk, sign Andre Smith, draft Joe Mixon
or
2) Re-sign Burkhead for same contract Pats did, draft Pat Elflein at 48 instead of Mixon?

(FWIW, I think Mixon will be a better RB than Burkhead)

Hadn't really thought about it that way. Good way of looking at it as the draft room most likely was.

Personally, I would have gone with #2. We knew what we had in Burkhead and the backfield; Elflein would have been able to move into some spot on the line in the near future; and who knows where Mixon would have fallen. It could have been we traded back up and got him by packaging some of the later round picks that most likely won't see the field in stripes.

I'm ok with Mixon, I don't think there was a better talent that fit the scheme. I just had different priorities than RB.