i do agree with the point read in this article about getting a 1st round talent only thru like pick 20...that after that you come away with guys with 2nd round grades...and i think if you trade down you have to keep that in mind...do you lose a first round talent to acquire an extra second rounder etc
when i was looking at that walterfootball mock a few weeks back i kept thinking even by pick #16 that i didn't really like the talent at that slot even that was still on the board with that high a pick...and with some of these kids going back to school i think its gotten even worse of late
we'll see
I think a lot of it has to do with the draft being a big lopsided - in a way that doesn't particularly help Miami this year. There's a lot of 1st RD talent on D - not a ton on offense. But, the guys who are 1st RD talents on offense are pretty high 1st RD talents - A. Green, J. Jones, M. Ingram, B. Gabbert, C. Newton, and I expect Mallett to go pretty high. Any or all of them could go top-15. There seems to be a pretty clear divide on offense between 1st and 2nd RD guys. Seems a little more muddled - and deep - on D. But, Miller and Quinn are much better OLB prospects than any of the OLB prospects last season; the CB prospects are much stronger - especially at the top -; I wouldn't rate Fairley or Dareus as high as Suh, but I'd rate both higher than McCoy; Bowers and Quinn are better than any of the 4-3 DE prospects last year. FS looks considerably weaker, but Thomas and Berry are rare players. Overall, though, I'd take this draft for D 100 out of 100 times over last season's group.