“Orakpo probably won’t be there at our pick” was a popular saying this time last year.

There’s some talent available in the second round too, Black and Fox are two names I’ve heard thrown around (but don’t know much of either).

Pos
Rank Name Ht/Wt/40 College
1 Russell Okung
6-5/300/- Oklahoma State

2 Trent Williams
6-5/290/- Oklahoma

3 Charles Brown
6-6/295/- USC

4 Selvish Capers
6-5/298/- West Virginia

5 Ciron Black
6-5/322/- LSU

6 Jason Fox
6-6/305/- Miami (FL)

7 Adam Ulatoski
6-8/310/- Texas

8 Kyle Calloway
6-7/317/- Iowa

9 Zane Beadles
6-4/308/- Utah

10 Sam Young
6-8/320/- Notre Dame

Any of the Top 5 in the first round
Any of the Top 10 in the second

There will be some juniors to come out. The top rated junior should be Anthony Davis fron Rutgers. 6’6’ 325. Great footwork. Can play either RT or LT. He could be the 2nd tackle off the board. Bruce Campbell (Maryland), although raw, should be the 3rd tackle taken. He too is a junior. Joseph Barksdale is a junior from LSU who plays RT. His upside is huge. Don’t know if he will declare early or not.

Here is my top 5:
Okung
Davis
Campbell
Williams
Black

The only 2 of these who I believe are worthy of top 10 consideration are Okung(who will be gone within the first 4 picks), and Davis, who still could be a reach between 7 and 10.

The teams who are picking in the top 10 who need OT’s are
Rams(more likely to take a QB though)
Lions(could go either DT or OT)
Chiefs
Raiders(more likely to go DE or S)
Skins
Bills
Seahawks

and besides Okung it is a pretty pathetic draft class. Not looking forward to using pick #8-12 on a OT who most likely will never be able to play anything other than RT or who will need a year or 2 to make it onto the field. But then again last year the top 3 OT’s taken have really struggled this year and Oher and second rounder Volmer are looking like the 2 best OT’s to come out of the draft. ESPN has a nice section where KC Joyner uses metrics to evaluate if the top prospects are over or underhyped by comparing their metrics to guys who have gone onto the NFL. His conclusions on the other 2 OT’s he looked at besides Okung is rather bleak.
As for FA we have alot of holes so if we can get a guy at a relatively reasonable price we should do it because the draft is gonna be a total crap shoot so we can’t go in needing to fill certain positions. Thats a good way to drop Deangelo Hall money on a second round talent. Look at Jones. Most of us want to re-sign him if we can do it at a reasonable price and then ideally draft someone better who can either man the RT or move Jones to the bench where he will be a top flight backup. If we can’t then Jones is a serviceable starter right? Well I think we should get as many of those types of guys as we can so we can draft more for need. Signing the eagles old fading LT really helped out Jacksonville who drafted 2 tackles on the first day last year and then had one of them Eugene Monroe really struggle. I think there is much to be learned from that situation for us.

as I think the ’Skins are capable of winning at least one more game, which slots us down a bit.

As for those above us, If St Louis goes first, they are going QB because I think Bulger has run his course, so pencil in Claussen, I gotta figure TB is going with bpa and since they are likely to be picking next, I would expect Suh or Okung to be their choice. With Det picking 2 or 3, it would be the other guy that TB doesn’t choose.

Cleveland may still have faith in Brady, so maybe the safety Berry goes there.

That leaves who? Oakland, KC, Seattle, Carolina, Buffalo figure on KC being above us and they already have a QB, but WR may be where their focus is since they’ve added a lot of D picks over the last couple years and Cassel needs someone to throw to.

say Oak is ahead of us, the issue is how much faith do they place in Gradkowski? Russell hasn’t been the answer so far, how long do they stay with him? Al Davis is picking, so who knows?

Seattle needs a QB but with Locker gone, do they wait a year or address it now since this is a “heavy QB talent year supposedly”, Carolina might very well consider an upgrade to Delhomme (they’d be crazy if they didn’t), Buffalo might not be sold on Edwards or Fitzgerald for all we know. If those guys lose out (a possibility) they could all be picking ahead of the ’Skins. Hell, if the ’Skins win two, Chicago could come back to the group, but I doubt they are looking at a new QB since they have so heavily invested in Cutler.

So suppose the ‘Skins win two (the Giants do look beatable don’t they? and the ’Pokes come to our place too and Norval may well be resting his guys) that could leave them at 6-10 or 5-9 most likely looking at the 8-10 slot.

I wouldn’t have a problem seeing the team resign Levi Jones and then drafting Williams out of Okla. It wouldn’t be that much of a reach and if he’s gone, trade down and focus on OLB. There’s that kid from the small college

I like the idea of getting that Veldheer kid out of Hillsdale in the 4th round. 6-8 and runs the 40 in under 5, it would give uncle Joe someone new to mold.

say Oak is ahead of us, the issue is how much faith do they place in Gradkowski? Russell hasn’t been the answer so far, how long do they stay with him? Al Davis is picking, so who knows?

he will pick the QB with the best 40 time, doesnt matter if he cant throw, its all about the 40 time for Davis

we can get better value for the pick (unlikely?) by drafting a RG, I say we go for it, rather than a tackle.

I would love to persue Logan Mankins from the pats as a FA. We all know the pats don’t believe in over-paying for players, and they draft so well that they believe that they have a younger player to step into his place. Therefore I believe he will be avaliable as a FA. He would be a great replacement for R Thomas. He is only 26 or 27.