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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat
I'd be happy with either; however the "problem" with Okung is that we could probably get a tackle 90% as good 10-20 picks later in the draft. if Suh were on the board, i'd be pretty pissed if we did anything other than drafting him or trading down, since we would have plenty of offers.
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The only real OT in the draft that I would consider about 90% as good as Okung would be Trent Williams. Anthony Davis, Charles Brown, and Brian Bulaga all come with immediate value, but I would file them in "best of the rest" territory.
I'm higher on Davis than most because I think he's a top three LT in this draft, but I'd obviously feel a lot better about him had Andre Smith been a positive contributor on the 2009 Bengals. I don't necessarily think Smith is a bust nor is Davis any way dependent on Smith to be successful, but as long as teams are going to back their evaluations on these "character issue" types with their dollar, I'd really like to see it pay off for someone first.
I wouldn't be unhappy with any of the above, but ultimately, when you are trying to improve a team, you do that by grabbing the best player you can get who won't be blocked by a veteran. Any situation where we land Okung, it'd be tough to argue that we didn't get the best player available. But going further on down that list, we might then be passing up steals to address an obvious need.
Okung is the offensive Suh in this draft, but there is no Gerald McCoy comparable. The next best offensive player is probably Spiller.