Just what we need....another project DT like Manny Wright or Kevin Vickerson or Rodrique Wright or Fred Evans. Great pick guys (sarcasm). Plus, don't we still have Traylor and Holliday?
Now in no way do I claim to be a draft expert but imo I think we've done very poorly so far.
1. Drafting Ginn at #9 is ridiculous: IMO he's not even the 2nd best WR in this draft and certainly not worthy of the #9 spot. I can understand not being in love with Quinn and passing but for a player who is currently injured, weighs only 175 lbs and would likely have been there 10 - 15 picks later??? If Ginn is who the staff wanted why not trade down 10 spots, pick up another selection or 2 and still get him? (I realize he is supposed to be a sick Return specialist as well but this is way too high to pick in what my opinion is a good to great return man who may help a little bit in the receiving game someday).
2. 1st 2nd rd pick on Beck: he is 26 and will likely be near 30 before he is ready to start for us (if ever?). He is 6 foot 2 and 210 lbs which is very small for an NFL QB. Personally, I don't like this pick very much at all. (I realize that Brees is a small QB and is one of the best but still, undersized QB's generally don't cut it in the bigs).
3. 2nd 2nd rd pick Samson Satele: An intriguing prospect who may develop given a couple of years. However, his work ethic is suspect and he has had next to no practice run blocking at Hawaii. IMO there were much better OL available than this pure pass blocker (who knows...maybe Cam is planning on changing our O to Coach June Jones' Hawaii style offense).
4. 3rd rd pick: Lorenzo Booker: So far, this is the only pick that I support although it to comes with its drawbacks. Seeing as we now have Ronnie Brown and Lorenzo Booker what does this do for our leverage in any Ricky Williams trade? I would have loved to seen Ricky come back for us (he did play very well last time) but it's unlikely to happen if he is reinstated by the league. And if he is, we will almost certainly try to trade him although like I said we will have zero leverage now and may have to cut him rather than get compensation. Not to be entirely negative however, I think Booker and Brown could form (with some help from our poor performing O-line) one hell of a tandem.
5. 4th rd pick DT Paul Soliai: like I said earlier, in case we didn't have enough DT's (Vickerson, Wright, Wright, Evans, Traylor, Holliday) we picked up a guy that I am not really fond of. This pick could have been MUCH better used on either a LB or DB. Furthermore, if we really thought that we needed a 6th or 7th DT why not go for a gamble like Marcus Thomas who has (imo) a lot more talent that Soliai? (I suppose character issues prevented this which really might not be that bad).
Sorry for the rant and I'm sure I'm in the minority here but we could have had (imo) a much better looking draft if we would have taken:
1st: Brady Quinn
2nd: DB Chris Houston (or WR's Dwayne Jarret or Steve Smith)
2nd: DE/LB Quentin Moses (or LB Buster Davis or WR Jason Hill)
3rd: Lorenzo Booker (happy with pick...just not happy with what it probably means for Ricky)
4th: LB Zac DeOssie or DT Marcus Thomas
Any thoughts besides I'm a raving lunatic?