The cool thing about if you get a David Boston is that it just allows you to pick up the best player available no matter what the position (except CB, RB, and TE of course).
You take a guy in the 1st round you're hoping he turns out to be a star and there's a fair chance he will be. Are there really many positions on this team we could not use a future star in? We've got tons of solid positions, but even with Feeley and Fiedler we could use a guy we know will be a star at QB like Rivers. Even with Boston and Chambers we could use a younger guy to groom because Chambers will be entering contract year and Boston is always a bigtime question mark. Even with McIntosh and Smith at tackle if Andrews fell to us we could use a tackle there let me tell you because I'm not convinced we've got a set of future pro bowl bookends (if McIntosh manages to stay healthy). Ok I dont like the idea of using a 1st on a guard, sorry I just think spending as much money as we did on James and then using a 1st for the guard position is a misallocation of funds. Has Seth McKinney blown us away yet? Nope...so we could use a Jake Grove. There's a well-publicized question mark over the Ogunleye issue so we could even use a DE. We've got three solid gap fillers at DT, but do we have that wrecking ball force to be reckoned with that you'd like there? Nope. Ok I doubt there will be any safeties worth drafting in round 1 at our spot cuz Taylor will be gone...and now we've got 3 solid starting (highly paid) CBs so using a 1st round pick there wouldn't make sense. And we may be backed out the door at LBer, and people may STILL be upset about Eddie Moore, but Zach gets older (and more mediocre) every year, Morlon Greenwood is nothing but solid at best, Junior will retire in a year, Jenkins is raw as a fresh cut steak, and Moore has yet to show us that he could become the Derrick Brooks type LBer we envisioned...so could we use a Jonathon Vilma or DJ Williams if we flat out thought they were THAT good? We sure as heck could.
All of this would be moot though if we stepped into the draft with a WR situation looking like it currently is...cuz then thats a big NEED and we'd be pressured unbelievably to take the best WR in the draft and not the best player in the draft. In the first round I still feel that is a mistake.
