Dalton Risner FA

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(5 hours ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Yeah, I have spent next to zero time looking at 2025 draft folks, lol. I just did a quick search to see what IOL would be around there and I saw him as a 2nd in one and rolled with without checking more sources. 

My general point remains though that we need to hit on at least one IOL in the draft. We can't construct our OL 4/5ths out of FAs without having to do compromises on the level of talent we'd sign. We tried that already by signing Cappa/Karras/La'el Collins in one offseason. Which was better than what we had, but not as good as if we could have hit on one draft pick and then used the money from one of those three to upgrade one or both of the others to a better player.

Yep, have to add an early Draft pick, I doubt we add 2 FA's on the IOL.

(2 hours ago)pulses Wrote: The thing that sucks about this OL class is it isn't very strong so anything past round 3 is prob a waste for us. Their are a few OT's that can play OG at the next level and I would think we may be interested in that as well.....OBJ should be gone in a couple years.

Yeah, we will have to pick an IOL in the first 3 rounds to have a chance at a good one. Get at least 1 FA and an early pick for Peters to work with.

[pulses]

(2 hours ago)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Yep, have to add an early Draft pick, I doubt we add 2 FA's on the IOL.


Yeah, we will have to pick an IOL in the first 3 rounds to have a chance at a good one. Get at least 1 FA and an early pick for Peters to work with.

Hayden Conner LG from Texas  6'5 320 with elite pass pro technique I like a lot. He's prob a 2nd/ 3rd rounder when it's all said and done

[*Nate (formerly eliminate08)*]

(2 hours ago)pulses Wrote: Hayden Conner LG from Texas  6'5 320 with elite pass pro technique I like a lot. He's prob a 2nd/ 3rd rounder when it's all said and done

Yeah, I like Conner myself. Got to watch quite a few Texas games this year and was impressed by Conner in pass pro.

Immediate upgrade over Volson in pass protection for damn sure. Conner and Trey Smith and boom.

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(2 hours ago)pulses Wrote: The thing that sucks about this OL class is it isn't very strong so anything past round 3 is prob a waste for us. Their are a few OT's that can play OG at the next level and I would think we may be interested in that as well.....OBJ should be gone in a couple years.

I always feel like those claims past the top 20-40 players we are always just encroaching on a bit of guessing. What year was it not that long ago where everyone had gotten to the point of repeating the claim of how incredibly deep some draft was in OL that we didn't need to draft one early because we could just as easily get a starter in the 3rd or 4th round? Was that the Volson draft?

I think finding a future Orlando replacement is so far down the list of current needs and priorities that it is on the back side of the page, or like... a second piece of smaller paper stapled onto the bottom of the main sheet.

I'm all on board with picking an OL early, though. 

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(1 hour ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I always feel like those claims past the top 20-40 players we are always just encroaching on a bit of guessing. What year was it not that long ago where everyone had gotten to the point of repeating the claim of how incredibly deep some draft was in OL that we didn't need to draft one early because we could just as easily get a starter in the 3rd or 4th round? Was that the Volson draft?

I think finding a future Orlando replacement is so far down the list of current needs and priorities that it is on the back side of the page, or like... a second piece of smaller paper stapled onto the bottom of the main sheet.

I'm all on board with picking an OL early, though. 

It was the Jackson Carman, Dante Smith, and Trey Smith draft and to be fair it was a deep OL class Bengals just missed on 3 picks lol.

[pulses]

(1 hour ago)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I always feel like those claims past the top 20-40 players we are always just encroaching on a bit of guessing. What year was it not that long ago where everyone had gotten to the point of repeating the claim of how incredibly deep some draft was in OL that we didn't need to draft one early because we could just as easily get a starter in the 3rd or 4th round? Was that the Volson draft?

I think finding a future Orlando replacement is so far down the list of current needs and priorities that it is on the back side of the page, or like... a second piece of smaller paper stapled onto the bottom of the main sheet.

I'm all on board with picking an OL early, though. 

What i'm saying is their are OT's in this draft that can play guard as well or even better. So if you have the chance to get a guy who can play guard for a few years and then move to OT later on that's not a bad option.