Post Your Draft Board

[Dirtbag59]

Preferably players we're expected to look at for the 13th pick but you're free to include other positions like CB and S. Anyway heres mine as of today. For those who don't know what a draft board it's a tool that Vinny uses to justify taking 3 pass catchers in the second round. Just kidding, it's really a tool that scouts use to evaluate players from a pure talent perspective. So basically do you think that Prospect A is a better LB then Prospect B is a Tackle or vice-versa.

1st Tier

1. Andre Smith - OT - Alabama - He can play LT but will be an elite RT in this league. He used to be considered top 5 for a reason. It's the usual combine politics that have dropped him so far.

2. Rey Maualuga - LB - USC - Relelentless. Don't know about his OLB prospects but worse case we'd have our replacement for Fletcher. On top of that I think he's going to be better then Lofu Tatupu.

3. Alex Mack - C - Cal - From a pure talent perspective Mack is among the best at what he does. However the fact that Centers are undervalued means Mack will not hear his name called for a while. Might be better then my personal favorite center prospect Ryan Kalil from the 2007 draft.

2nd Tier

4. Knowshon Moreno - RB - UGA- Clinton Portis is starting to show his wear and tear and I'm not to comfortable about Betts unless he's starting full time as he needs a few carries to get going. If we could add a free agent RT then I would have few objections about adding Knowshon, but fixing the problems at RT might be all we need to get the running game bakc on track.

5. Brian Orakpo - DE/LB - Texas - He's a very interesting prospect that deserves consideration and as the Giants say "you can never have to many D-lineman" He barely seems to be capable though of having the size to play LDE.

6. Michael Johnson - DE - Georgia Tech - I'm moving Johnson into my board now as the kid really is a freak of nature. Had he had 13 or 14 sacks this year he would have ended up being a sure fire top 3 pick. Still 9 sacks is by no means a bad year. Apparently the guy has the same type of frame as last years DE prospect Calias Campbell (Miami) and granted we were considering taking him as a LE I think we owe it to ourselves to give Johnson a long hard look. Either way he has the potential to be a sack artist in this league and the fact that we can get him on a trade down might be to much to pass up.

3rd Tier

7. James Laurinaitis- LB - Ohio State - He's a little on the smaller side, but he's a mean SOB. Explosive, gets after the run, rushes the passer. Just a football player. Would also give us Fletchers successor, a need that is more important then most people are letting on.

8. Lesean McCoy - RB - Pitt - Explosive running back that actually reminds me a little of Portis coming out of Miami. Same problem though in that both players have a pretty small frame.

9. Michael Oher - OT - Ole Miss - A personal favorite. Would be extremely relieved if we traded down and picked him up, but I keep getting a feeling that the front office will consider him a reach even in the late 1st round.

10. Tyson Jackson - DE - LSU - Even though we got Haynesworth the fact remains that we don't have that big body LDE right now that can anchor the left side on running plays. Evans might come back to us but right now I'd be willing to bet that he signs in New Orleans.

4th Tier

11. Brian Cushing - LB - USC- Can anyone tell me why Scout has Clay Matthews ranked highter then Cush at this point? Either way he plays hard and can rush the passer. Durability issues though should be a huge concern.

12. Peria Jerry - DT - Ole Miss - Doubt we even consider him with Haynesworth on board but he can get after the passer and stop the run or as I sometimes mistakenly type it 'stop the fun.' Ironic how it kind of ends up being true.