7 Round Mock

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Originally Posted by dalemurphy

I love adding draftpicks and trading down. However, I think you went a little overboard. Thinking about a 53 man roster, you are creating too much inexperienced competition on the back end of it.

For example:

CB: Reeves, Quin are the starters. add McCourty to that and you have three keeper CBs for sure. Then, the final two roster spots go to: Fred Bennett, Molden, B.McCain, and Jerome Murphy (3rd)..... Good riddance to Bennett, probably, but after that, you are either forcing out your 3rd round pick, Molden, or McCain and I'm not ready to that with any of those three yet.

Interior OLine: You are adding 3 mid round picks to this group: Briesel, White, Myers, Caldwell, Studdard, W. Smith... we won't keep more than 6 in total, but more likely only 5: so, if CWhite gets cut, and one of those rookies can clear waiver to the P.S., you are still in a position to have to cut 1 or two from the rest of that group.

It's an interesting situation we are in... being so young. With that in mind, I do have trading down in the 1st and maybe 2nd, but I think accumulating picks in the 5th and 6th rounds, for instance, is likely to be counter-productive... particularly at the expense of 2011 draft picks.

First off, this is a mock to see what is possible and who is there at what locations. Smith and Kubiak will never go with this. One of these moves is about all they might do. But on the OL last year we kept 10 players, 3 were OTs so that is 7 guys. I have not heard anything yet on Briesel is he practicing? His Lisfranc injury is not a slam dunk to come back from. Also losing Studdard and White is not a huge deal IMO.

Of the DBs I agree we still do not know where some of the young guys stand.