RashanGary
04-24-2009, 08:39 PM
Assuming players are ranked equally, which position should we take first?
I'd go like this
NT (other than QB, might be the most valuable position on a team that runs a 3-4. I wouldn't be able to pass.)
LT (or any OT later in the draft. Such a valuable position and we are losing Cliffy sooner than later)
DE
P (punters are never highly rated so it won't ever come to a tie breaker until about the 5th or 6th round of players way later in the draft. Still, it's a need that would break some tie breakers at the end of the draft. I'd take a great punter over a borderline prospect at most positions that you would find late in the draft.)
CB
S
RB
FB (FB's are not highly rated, so a tie breaker wouldn't even come up until the 3rd or 4th round at earliest. I'd rather have a guy that I think is a stud FB than a prospect guard that you would get in the middle rounds)
OG
OC
TE
WR (If he was the best player, I'd have to but just about any position would win in a tie breaker so the odds of drafting one go down quite a bit. If I draft one early, I wouldn't pick another though. This position is awfully close to breaking that threshold of not wanting to spend picks on prospects like QB and K)
QB (Rare case where I might not take BPA. Prospects are just that, prospects. We have two good ones. It would be very tough to draft a QB)
K (Again, I'd take a player a tier below before I draft a kicker)
In cases where you have 2 players of equal rating available, I'd break the ties using need. Because I think we need defense more than offense for the most part, I think we should end up seeing more defensive players drafted than offense. Of course, it could bounce the other way, but odds are, I think this year we see more defense than offense.
I'd go like this
NT (other than QB, might be the most valuable position on a team that runs a 3-4. I wouldn't be able to pass.)
LT (or any OT later in the draft. Such a valuable position and we are losing Cliffy sooner than later)
DE
P (punters are never highly rated so it won't ever come to a tie breaker until about the 5th or 6th round of players way later in the draft. Still, it's a need that would break some tie breakers at the end of the draft. I'd take a great punter over a borderline prospect at most positions that you would find late in the draft.)
CB
S
RB
FB (FB's are not highly rated, so a tie breaker wouldn't even come up until the 3rd or 4th round at earliest. I'd rather have a guy that I think is a stud FB than a prospect guard that you would get in the middle rounds)
OG
OC
TE
WR (If he was the best player, I'd have to but just about any position would win in a tie breaker so the odds of drafting one go down quite a bit. If I draft one early, I wouldn't pick another though. This position is awfully close to breaking that threshold of not wanting to spend picks on prospects like QB and K)
QB (Rare case where I might not take BPA. Prospects are just that, prospects. We have two good ones. It would be very tough to draft a QB)
K (Again, I'd take a player a tier below before I draft a kicker)
In cases where you have 2 players of equal rating available, I'd break the ties using need. Because I think we need defense more than offense for the most part, I think we should end up seeing more defensive players drafted than offense. Of course, it could bounce the other way, but odds are, I think this year we see more defense than offense.