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He only bench pressed 225 lbs. 23 times which isn’t a whole lot for a guy his size.

I would pref. Mallett first over anyone at any position, and if he’s off the board, I would take zero risk hedging that the legitimately questionable trio that follow him in that list and immediately go for an offensive lineman of Mallett’s off the board by our pick. So, to answer more briefly:

1. Ryan Mallett (AR)
2. Anthony Castonzo (BC)
3. Mike Pouncey (Fla.)
4. Newton
5. If we’re at this point, because I’m sure my picks will be maligned by a small but vociferous troupe in one permutation or another as basically not sexy enough or the guy who has bizarre Mallett bloodlust, I’d defer to “greatest value.”

I don’t like projects, especially going high risk/high reward in the first round. In my opinion, once you get as high as the first round, the differences become 1A & 1B rather than A vs. C in terms of quality. That being said, taking on project picks with the idea that you can get even more out of them than 1B who is less sexy (either b/c he’s an OL, b/c he’s just not hyped by the dishonest shills we’ll have to endure come draft day like Mel Kiper (still baffles me that he retains his job after his sham analysis was publicly denuded), or b/c he’s not hyped by the few honest evaluators that end up shouting on TV on Draft Day), to me is strategically unsound from a cost/benefit point-of-view. Most of these guys, excepting the high risk/potentially high-er reward than low-risk/high value 1A or 1B, are not going to be much better than each other in terms of combine results etc. This is all to say, basically, I welcome being told I’m “reaching” for a Castonzo or a Pouncey when a good half of the next 5-8 back are going to shell out just as much (probably more since they’ll not be drafting OL help) on potential rather than conservatively & more than half of those in my opinion, will not get the value they’re shelling out for. I guess that’s my long-winded justification for playing it as conservatively as possible, and drafting for needs with the team we have.

It’s a QB & OL league, and we don’t have either – therefore, these are my picks. I think Mallett will be a stud, solid, good to great QB that we haven’t had, well, in over a decade and a half. He doesn’t need any grooming, after having endured being two-timed multiple times in college by Lloyd Carr and then Rich Rod, and then the NCAA (having to sit out a year), and then having to learn a new system with new personnel in the punishing SEC, from a lesser position vis-a-vis Auburn, Florida, & Alabama, he’ll love finally having the stability of playing in Washington under the Shanahans, who will correctly prioritize him in training him in what he needs to know to translate his college skills into the NFL seamlessly. What’s more, Mallett is a smart, good kid who justifiably didn’t like receiving about the least integrity possible from his college coaches as he neared NFL draft-time. His overall accuracy’s good enough, he’s big and strong, has good pocket awareness, and unlike the projects that would make me vom if we wasted a pick on them (Gabbert & Locker), has played in a pro-style offense his entire college tenure. Locker has far too many question marks and doesn’t have enough hard evidence statistical support to justify a high first round pick from our position, in my opinion, & Gabbert scares me because we have to teach him how to play pro. I don’t like the idea of getting at most, an understudy, nah, more like a “potential” Matt Cassell with a pick this high, it’s not justifiable from a “high risk/high reward” (b/c I don’t think Gabbert’s ceiling is that terribly high) nor is it justifiable from a conservative drafter’s standpoint (we still would have to essentially treat him like Jason Campbell and wait, & hope, that our first round draft pick could learn how to play the most crucial position in the game.

The “character” thing re Newton is way overblown. College football players steal stuff everywhere, I went to a more academic school for undergrad and they’d sneak around ganking stuff all the time. And the thing with his dad is non-sequitur, I don’t think it matters that either he or his dad wanted to circumvent the NCAA’s arcane leave-it-to-beaver rules that will someday soon become more realistic & adapt to real world demands. That being said, I like his relentlessly good attitude and desire to win, his arm and his mobility. It wouldn’t crush me to pick him unless we passed Mallett for him, which would be simply tragic. Newton in my opinion has some question marks about how good he could be without an Auburn around him, enough for me to take Mallett, Castonzo, & Pouncey before him, but if in bizarro world those 3 are taken, I’d be okay taking Newton, certainly ahead of Locker or Gabbert.

Sorry for the ridic monologue, just my thoughts! Hoping to high heaven that we pick Mallett!