Fanspeak finally updated the composite board (4/22) and my trading down got me in trouble but I used a bunch of third-day picks to fill in with depth if not star power:
22: R1P22 OT JACK CONKLIN MICHIGAN STATE
62: R2P31 S VONN BELL OHIO STATE
111: R4P13 C MAX TUERK SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
119: R4P21 RB C.J. PROSISE NOTRE DAME
129: R4P31 WR RASHARD HIGGINS COLORADO STATE
141: R5P2 DT MATT IOANNIDIS TEMPLE
151: R5P12 CB JONATHAN JONES AUBURN
159: R5P20 ILB BLAKE MARTINEZ STANFORD
169: R5P30 K ROBERTO AGUAYO FLORIDA STATE
195: R6P20 TE JERRELL ADAMS SOUTH CAROLINA
TRADE PARTNER:
CAROLINA PANTHERS
SENT:
ROUND: 2 PICK: 21
RECEIVED:
ROUND: 2 PICK: 31
ROUND: 4 PICK: 31
TRADE PARTNER:
DETROIT LIONS
SENT:
ROUND: 3 PICK: 22
RECEIVED:
ROUND: 4 PICK: 13
ROUND: 5 PICK: 12
ROUND: 5 PICK: 30
ROUND: 6 PICK: 16
TRADE PARTNER:
CLEVELAND BROWNS
SENT:
ROUND: 5 PICK: 27
ROUND: 6 PICK: 16
RECEIVED:
ROUND: 5 PICK: 2
I got my desire in the first round, taking Jack Conklin but my trade down in the second blew up when the nine spot drop gobbled up everyone I was hoping to take at #31. The best guy left was SS Vonn Bell. Detroit offered a 4-for-1 trade down in the third that I couldn't say no too. It left me with 3 4ths, 4 5ths and 2 6ths. When I saw two good DT left to start the 5th round, I moved up to get one which turned out to be Ioannidis.
You'll notice I've taken Rashard Higgins several times for the WR. Part of it is the groupings of WR and he, like Austin Hooper, just shows up quite a bit where I want to pick his position. But Higgins is a receiver who is said to be not the fastest or the best pair of hands but he is fantastic at finding dead spots in coverage and getting open, much like Wayne Chrebet. He was very productive at CSU just because he was always getting open.
Aguayo is one of those PK who is so accurate that he gets bored with putting them through the uprights and practices banking them off the uprights. Most rookie PKs seem to have a jinx when they join the NFL (Randy Bullock, for example) but Aguayo is one of those I think is so above the rest that he won't have that problem and easily replace Nick Novak.
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