How would you feel about a defensive back in the 2nd round?

[BoomerFan]

While there are some decent offensive players who fell out of the first round my guess is they'll be picked by teams that just draft a QB (Arizona, Giants) or teams that went defense in the first round (pretty much everyone else ahead of us). That leaves some 1st round talent at corner falling to us in the 2nd. I know we need linebackers but unless you want Mack Wilson (could be decent, or might be a reach) you're going to have to wait a bit longer to start attacking that problem. Instead we could try one of the following:

Byron Murphy  CB  Washington
Greedy Williams  CB  LSU
Rock Ya-Sin  CB  Temple
Justin Layne  CB  Michigan State
Amani Oruwariye  CB  Penn State
Julian Love CB Notre Dame
Trayvon Mullen CB Clemson
Sean Bunting CB Central Michigan
Chauncey Gardner-Johnson  DB  Florida
Nasir Adderley  DB Delaware
Taylor Rapp  S Washington



Of course there are reasons they fell out of the first round but assuming we did our research before the draft we should know which of the ones remaining is the best value when our 2nd round pick comes around. I wouldn't hate to see us get Rock Ya-Sin and getting Byron this late would feel like a real steal.

Remember, there is a version of our future where we are without Darquez Dennard after this year, and it takes time for us to get our Corners up to speed (unless that was just a Marvin thing). Finally I'd say more than almost any other position, you can't have too many good corners. Because of rotation and injury you want as many 1st and 2nd round talent level corners as possible. It is a passing league and you really just can't be too deep at this position.