04-11-2018, 05:25 PM
The right play is situational (BPA/trade up or down/future pick), but the tea leaves are lining up for dealing down a few as a serious scenario. They dealt for Glenn out of desperate need before their evaluations were complete but they had to have a general picture of what pick 12's value was. Dealing down to 21, it may be a combination of the Deltha & Chris Perry trade and the Decastro/Zeitler situation years later.
There's more smoke than fire with liking in house guys for center or they would have pushed Bodine last year, regardless of Piano Man. They also have bodies at tackle but not enough stability. So, common sense says there are two needs early as well as the DL pick we know will happen by the 3rd and LB as well as BPA in general. So, much of this board has Price/Daniels/Ragnow as targets somewhere between picks 1 and 2, but what if they have Rankin and Cole rated closer to this group than we do? Between the glut of tackle and center prospects in that late 1st-early 3rd range, they may gamble to add more picks to fill with best players at a position they could use.
If they aren't in love with top 10 player on their board that fell to 21, I could see them deal down say 7 or 8 slots to a team that wants to leap ____ for ____ and add an extra 3rd. Say McGlinchy, Payne and Vea are off the board as guys Cincy has as plan A at 21. Say they see Daniels and Price as worthy of pick 2 (but not Ragnow) and they'd like to have that need taken care of to free up true BPA from then on. Then Daniels/Price becomes DeCastro/Zeitler, and they get one of them in the late 1st. NFL.com has NINE OT prospects ranked in the late 1st early 3rd range, so you get one of them as a freebie.
There's more smoke than fire with liking in house guys for center or they would have pushed Bodine last year, regardless of Piano Man. They also have bodies at tackle but not enough stability. So, common sense says there are two needs early as well as the DL pick we know will happen by the 3rd and LB as well as BPA in general. So, much of this board has Price/Daniels/Ragnow as targets somewhere between picks 1 and 2, but what if they have Rankin and Cole rated closer to this group than we do? Between the glut of tackle and center prospects in that late 1st-early 3rd range, they may gamble to add more picks to fill with best players at a position they could use.
If they aren't in love with top 10 player on their board that fell to 21, I could see them deal down say 7 or 8 slots to a team that wants to leap ____ for ____ and add an extra 3rd. Say McGlinchy, Payne and Vea are off the board as guys Cincy has as plan A at 21. Say they see Daniels and Price as worthy of pick 2 (but not Ragnow) and they'd like to have that need taken care of to free up true BPA from then on. Then Daniels/Price becomes DeCastro/Zeitler, and they get one of them in the late 1st. NFL.com has NINE OT prospects ranked in the late 1st early 3rd range, so you get one of them as a freebie.
