7 Round Mock

[dalemurphy]

Originally Posted by painekiller

I should have been clearer, pick #59 is late 2nd IMO. Not a huge reach at all, IMO, but I wanted to grab one of the better DBs in one of the 1st two rounds, and Pouncey was my 1st rounder, so....

What about doing this: Trade down with Jets get 29 and 61
Trade 81 down with the Chargers get 91 and 126
Trade 2011 2nd to Eagles for #70

29 Devin McCourty CB Rutgers
51 Nate Allen FS South Florida
61 Lamarr Houston DT Texas
70 *Linval Joseph NT East Carolina
91 Jerome Murphy CB South Florida
118 Mike Johnson OG Alabama
126 J.D. Walton C Baylor
151 Zane Beadles OG Utah more versatile depth, never to much depth
187 Andre Anderson RB Tulane
197 Reji Karim RB Southern Illinois
227 Mike McLaughlin LB/LS Boston College


We get a CB that can start Day1, a FS that should push Eugene Wilson for playing time, and is a huge hitter. Houston and Joseph add two solid pieces to our DL. Murphy is a steal at 91 and should see the field and is another huge hitter. Johnson, Walton, Beadles all push the veteran in front of them. Anderson and Karim add to the RB depth, and McLaughlin is still recovering from a achilles injury and can long snap, adds depth to LS position.

11 guys that all have a shot at the roster.

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.