04-29-2022, 04:55 PM -
(04-29-2022, 11:45 AM)Hobbit99 Wrote:
Well said, Coffee..... And I agree.
My 'discomfort' is mostly because I hate to sit idly by watching nothing happen. Unless something happens, we will have skipped all of the rest of the 1st, ALL of the 2nd, ALL of the 3rd, and ALL of the 4th down to the VERY LAST PICK before we get a chance to pick again. The Panthers are picking at #6. How did we end up with the 32nd pick in the 4th.?? That pick SHOULD belong to the RAMS.!! ---- NEVERMIND---- I looked it up. SMH...SMH. Anyway, the truth of the numbers is..... we will skip 131 picks (from #6 to #137..). 131 picks is more than FOUR rounds of picks at 32 picks per round. YES, I realize there are some compensatory picks thrown in there. SO...We have six total picks this year. After Ekwonu, we have five remaining. That means we have five picks spread around the 5th, 6th, and 7th rounds. WOW--Good for us.!! Terrific news.!! Five essentially surplus picks with no prospect of playing effectively anytime soon.!!
BUT, back to reality. I too look at CJ Henderson as a 3rd this year. And he SHOULD be a valuable 3rd (hopefully..). He was picked at #9 in 2020, so a potential 1st round talent for a 3rd round pick. He's going into his third year of his rookie contract. So we have him for three years if we pick up his 5th year option. THAT is a good deal...as long as he stays healthy. He already spent a bunch of his rookie year on IR with a groin injury. So, let's keep our fingers crossed that he stays healthy.!!
And yes.... We were both lucky and happy about how the 1st played out. Ekwonu is a PERFECT choice for us. By far my favorite Tackle in this draft.
Good points.
I would probably feel the same if it was a year-after-year thing (trading away too many picks). But I'm looking at the whole rebuild. Average last year's draft with this one. Seems we've gotten a pretty balanced system going: A bunch of picks (put to good use) last year. Then this year getting hopefully a franchise LT and a 1st round talent CB.
If we averaged that kind of production every two years, I'd be thrilled with it.