2010 DRAFT THREAD

[Bretsky]

Looks like 23. http://walterfootball.com/nfldraftorder2010.php

Last year the 23rd pick was Michael Oher. Wouldn't mind something similar.

ditto; long term we might wish we'd have taken Michael Oher

[Brando19]

Maybe we can trade our 23rd pick for Michael Oher? Baltimore gets their pick back and we get our Left Tackle! Then I wake up and realize it was all just a wet dream.

[ThunderDan]

Maybe we can trade our 23rd pick for Michael Oher? Baltimore gets their pick back and we get our Left Tackle! Then I wake up and realize it was all just a wet dream.

I would trade the pick and AK to Cleveland for Joe Thomas.

[Bretsky]

Maybe we can trade our 23rd pick for Michael Oher? Baltimore gets their pick back and we get our Left Tackle! Then I wake up and realize it was all just a wet dream.

I would trade the pick and AK to Cleveland for Joe Thomas.

so would the other 30 teams; unfortunately IMO the Browns would laugh at the offer

[Freak Out]

Maybe we can trade our 23rd pick for Michael Oher? Baltimore gets their pick back and we get our Left Tackle! Then I wake up and realize it was all just a wet dream.

I would trade the pick and AK to Cleveland for Joe Thomas.

so would the other 30 teams; unfortunately IMO the Browns would laugh at the offer

The Walrus owes us one.

[Joemailman]

Didn't the Walrus stop trading with the Packers following the Ahman Green deal?

[ThunderDan]

Maybe we can trade our 23rd pick for Michael Oher? Baltimore gets their pick back and we get our Left Tackle! Then I wake up and realize it was all just a wet dream.

I would trade the pick and AK to Cleveland for Joe Thomas.

so would the other 30 teams; unfortunately IMO the Browns would laugh at the offer

If course they would, I postulated back in week 4 that we should trade AK and get a stud LT. Joe Thomas was my choice as a Badger!

[Ballboy]

I think this off season maybe interesting.....does TT see us as a team that is a player(FA player) or two away from the SB? If so, would he go against the grain and possibly be a player in the FA market?

Rookies for the MOST part don't make huge impacts....but would a Joshua Cribbs look good. Richard Seymor to add more depth?

[packrulz]

LT, S, RB (with breakaway speed), are immediate needs, CB, OLB, WR/KR for depth. I wouldn't draft a punter or kicker, TT can bring in some undrafted free agents after the draft to compete. He may want to draft a QB, if ARod goes down they need depth.

[Gunakor]

i agree we have blackmon, so we don't need to draft a guy just because he can return.

but i would make sure we draft a secondary guy that does know how to return kicks. because besides will we have nobody capable of doing the job

we need a better backup return man i guess is what i'm saying

I would like to, if possible, kill 2 birds with one stone. Draft a RB to replace Ahman Green on 3rd downs, one who has the same hands as Green catching passes out in the flat and the same ability to pick up and slow down a blitz, and also has the vision, agility, and speed to be a reliable return man once Blackmon finds his way onto IR once again.

This is the second year in a row that our secondary has become very thin due to injury. I'd rather our backup KR/PR come from the offense so that next year when all of our backup cornerbacks get injured we aren't suddenly desparate for a return man on top of it all.

[Zool]

I watched USF play NIU. What do we know about that OLB from USF? Selvie gets all the pub but that kid looked like a player. I think it was Jacquain Williams?

[Smidgeon]

Every year, it never fails. As soon as I've stopped moping about the Packer's season ending loss (or the end of the regular season) or come down from the Super Bowl winning euphoria (sadly only once in my life), I meander my way over to the various mock drafts for April's annual party to see who the collective pundit hive mind predict the Packers will draft.

And every year I see the same trend. I see the Packers on the list for a certain player. Said certain player is supposed to be good but slip through the ranks for a variety of reasons. One year it was Felix Jones slipping past the Cowboys. One year it was Mario Williams slipping past the Texans. One year it was Marshawn Lynch slipping past the Bills. Last year it was Andre Smith slipping past the Bengals.

Every year the same thing happens. Early in the process I see someone on the pundits' collective radar for the Pack that I can get a little excited about. And every year, by the time the draft comes around, that players value has skyrocketed or improved to the point that the Pack has no chance at him. Granted, twice players slipped to the Pack that I didn't expect. Rodgers and Raji (and Crabtree, but I guess I trust the people paid to make that decision that the decision will work out the best in the long run).

So when I'm hearing and seeing a lot of sites and people say that Spiller will slip to GB at #23, I know there's no chance. Now I'm seeing Baluga from Iowa slipping to the Pack. More feasible, but probably still no chance.

So my question becomes: who is the high profile, impact type player who has the best chance to slip to the Pack (a la Rodgers), and who is likely to be around when the Pack picks since Spiller and Baluga will be long gone per trend?

[denverYooper]

I think this off season maybe interesting.....does TT see us as a team that is a player(FA player) or two away from the SB? If so, would he go against the grain and possibly be a player in the FA market?

Rookies for the MOST part don't make huge impacts....but would a Joshua Cribbs look good. Richard Seymor to add more depth?

I believe that he's said before, in his very diplomatic way, that he would be a big player for that extra piece or two that would make the team a SB contender.

Not sure if FA will yield much in the way of what we need, unless Cribbs can somehow be done. I'd think he'd almost have to swing a trade to get a T or S who can help out.

[hoosier]

Every year, it never fails. As soon as I've stopped moping about the Packer's season ending loss (or the end of the regular season) or come down from the Super Bowl winning euphoria (sadly only once in my life), I meander my way over to the various mock drafts for April's annual party to see who the collective pundit hive mind predict the Packers will draft.

And every year I see the same trend. I see the Packers on the list for a certain player. Said certain player is supposed to be good but slip through the ranks for a variety of reasons. One year it was Felix Jones slipping past the Cowboys. One year it was Mario Williams slipping past the Texans. One year it was Marshawn Lynch slipping past the Bills. Last year it was Andre Smith slipping past the Bengals.

Every year the same thing happens. Early in the process I see someone on the pundits' collective radar for the Pack that I can get a little excited about. And every year, by the time the draft comes around, that players value has skyrocketed or improved to the point that the Pack has no chance at him. Granted, twice players slipped to the Pack that I didn't expect. Rodgers and Raji (and Crabtree, but I guess I trust the people paid to make that decision that the decision will work out the best in the long run).

So when I'm hearing and seeing a lot of sites and people say that Spiller will slip to GB at #23, I know there's no chance. Now I'm seeing Baluga from Iowa slipping to the Pack. More feasible, but probably still no chance.

So my question becomes: who is the high profile, impact type player who has the best chance to slip to the Pack (a la Rodgers), and who is likely to be around when the Pack picks since Spiller and Baluga will be long gone per trend?

The answer to your question is, nobody knows. When TT drafted ARod nobody knew what kind of impact he would make as a pro, and even after his first year a lot of observers were ready to write him off as a bust. The only thing that is safe to say about the 2010 draft is that unless the Packers draft someone who can return kicks or they get extremely lucky, their #1 will have a limited impact next year. And for after that there is no formula to predict success in the pros. Unless, of course, you buy into Waldo's theory about correlation between certain measurables and certain positions.

[Smidgeon]

Every year, it never fails. As soon as I've stopped moping about the Packer's season ending loss (or the end of the regular season) or come down from the Super Bowl winning euphoria (sadly only once in my life), I meander my way over to the various mock drafts for April's annual party to see who the collective pundit hive mind predict the Packers will draft.

And every year I see the same trend. I see the Packers on the list for a certain player. Said certain player is supposed to be good but slip through the ranks for a variety of reasons. One year it was Felix Jones slipping past the Cowboys. One year it was Mario Williams slipping past the Texans. One year it was Marshawn Lynch slipping past the Bills. Last year it was Andre Smith slipping past the Bengals.

Every year the same thing happens. Early in the process I see someone on the pundits' collective radar for the Pack that I can get a little excited about. And every year, by the time the draft comes around, that players value has skyrocketed or improved to the point that the Pack has no chance at him. Granted, twice players slipped to the Pack that I didn't expect. Rodgers and Raji (and Crabtree, but I guess I trust the people paid to make that decision that the decision will work out the best in the long run).

So when I'm hearing and seeing a lot of sites and people say that Spiller will slip to GB at #23, I know there's no chance. Now I'm seeing Baluga from Iowa slipping to the Pack. More feasible, but probably still no chance.

So my question becomes: who is the high profile, impact type player who has the best chance to slip to the Pack (a la Rodgers), and who is likely to be around when the Pack picks since Spiller and Baluga will be long gone per trend?

The answer to your question is, nobody knows. When TT drafted ARod nobody knew what kind of impact he would make as a pro, and even after his first year a lot of observers were ready to write him off as a bust. The only thing that is safe to say about the 2010 draft is that unless the Packers draft someone who can return kicks or they get extremely lucky, their #1 will have a limited impact next year. And for after that there is no formula to predict success in the pros. Unless, of course, you buy into Waldo's theory about correlation between certain measurables and certain positions.

I know that's the reasonable answer, but I don't want reasonable. I want to know who they're going to pick. And sadly, because they are picking #23, it isn't going to be a homerun pick. Over under on TT trading out of the first round?