mgteich

I had him a bit behind A. Williams at FS. It takes a year to train a safety. We have both Meriweather and Sanders in their contract year. Obviously we needed a safety to train up for 2012.

mgteich

I believe Mayock also had Dowling ahead of Moore.

mgteich

I would think that you would celebrate the addition of a second round quality safety.

Ochmed Jones

I had safety on my list of draft needs, but not a guy as injured as Dowling.

We could have taken Sheard at #33 and still gotten Dowling at #74.

Ochmed Jones

I get the feeling the drafting of Dowling is a wake up call sent directly Merriweather.

BPF

Talk about exaggeration. He was limited to 5 games because of a series of injuries like you pointed out earlier (ankle, knee, hamstring) BUT he had appeared in 35 games over his first 3 yrs at Virginia, so missing games is not normal for this kid. He did say on http://www.patriots.com that he was fully healthy "if we had camp tomorrow, I'd be ready to go."

Solid, solid pick. Could be one of the steals of this draft. As patchick mentioned, if he came out last year he is a top 15 pick. Better player than Amukamara. He's big and but has movements skills of smaller player (good hips), transitions smoothly, drives on the ball, has great leaping ability, is motivated and hard working in addition to being a solid character guy. He’s smart, played in a good program vs good competition and excelled. He can play all the different types of coverages that Pats play + he’s a good tackler and special teams player. He can also play S, and his size and leaping ability will be an asset vs big WRs.

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mgteich

I think you are underevaluated Dowling as well as how poor the safety class was. There were four quality safeties. All were gone by 50: Dowling, Williams, Moore and Gilcrest.

Ochmed Jones

He may have appeared in 35 games, but in most of those games he was nicked up or didn't finish due to injury. This guy needs to eat his Wheaties before camp starts. Otherwise he could be a bigger bruised banana pick than Klemm.

BPF

How about BB himself: Shane Vereen Conference Call - 4/29/2011

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I think you're wrong, let's see:

Played 12 games in 2007, starting 2

Missed season opener in 2008 (strained right hamstring), started 9 of 11 ~ forced out of UNC game due to back inj

Started 12 games in 2009

Had injury plagued 2010 as mentioned, played 5 games

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