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Originally Posted by over the mountain
thats a good deal right there. unless there is a bonafide stud in the top 5 at a position of desperate need for us i do not want to be picking and paying for a top 5 draft pick. i.e. lions who have been screwed by joey harrington, mike williams, and that wr rodgers (who i really liked and just don understand what happened to him).
we get orakpo at 5 yrs 20 mil who could just as easily be as good as tyson jackson who is going to get (im guessin) around 35 - 40 mil for 5 yrs.
go skins!!
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agreed, the 11-20 range is good value w/fairly high probability the player comes through. I know it might evoke some negative reaction, but even our very own 50-50, Rod Gardener, was a decent value pick at 16 I think. He wasn't a star but a good 2 reciever for a few years. He got paid decently but didn't jeopardize the cap like top 10 picks do.
If you pick in the top 10 & the player can't even start for you, you get stuck in the cycle of hoping the next top 5 or 10 pick you have pans out. in the meantime, those guys eat up cap space & $.