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Saw every UConn game this year and this kid is a stud. Belichick is paying attention to Uconn players.
The Bengals have the No. 21 overall selection. The team doesn’t pick again until the 54th overall selection...
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“My goal is not to be a first-round draft pick, but to be drafted,” Gilyard said. “I feel like I’m that much closer to my goal with a strong showing at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. I would love to be drafted by any team, but like I said it would be a dream come true to go to Cincinnati.”
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Gilyard received a lot of tough love while in Mobile and embraced the pro coaching.
“Personally, I wanted the coaches to be real strict on me at the Senior Bowl, and they were,” he said. “The whole experience was a good one. I thanked Lions receivers coach Shawn Jefferson for taking me from a B-minus player to an A-plus player in a week.
“Coach was really nitpicking, which I loved and was used to it. That’s just going to make me a better player. The coaches helped me outwork all the competition during that week. Now I’m ready to move another step closer to obtaining my dream.”
This.
Multiple vacancies at slot, 3, and four, plus a "1" extension issue on the horizon. For example:
1: Moss... Who else presently with the team is capable of even 1b duty, let alone 1a or big dawg 1 roles? Depth is my concern.
2: Which for argument's sake we'll call the slot. Edelman is "penciled in," he's not a given. Further, depth again raises it's knobby head.
3: Tate is "penciled in," but based on college production. Depth, 'nuff said.
4: ?
5: Aiken
Stanback = #3 QB & WR... :confused2:
Slater = Aiken, sorta.
Darnell Jenkins = PSquad mystery.
Welker: PUP, perhaps a late returner (Heavenly Father, grant Wes a bionic knee and "full" recovery; in Christ's Name. Amen).
NE is a 3-5 wide formation team at present, there is a depth issue at all but #5, there are open battles to be fought at 2, 3, & 4. The NFL is now more than ever an offensive-based league and the Pats need to create the competition for those three spots and the #1 depth role in the offseason. Some advocate Stallworth, fine, he's a 4 to pencil in, but he's not enough and I'm not intrigued by the WR Free Agent pool. Perhaps some trades will occur, it's now waiver time and there might be some cuts that could help, but overall I see the draft as the better resource - sad as it is to say that.
If Gilyard and Golden Tate were both available in round 2, I'd take them both. Our wide receiving group of the future would then be: Gilyard, Tate, Tate, Edelman. All for the price of 2 2nd rounders, a 3rd and a 7th. Not too shabby.
Randy turns 33 next week and is entering his contract year. Before the 2011 season starts you need to re-sign him and plan for a 34 year old WR who might be 35 before he again plays football if there's a lockout. I can very much see BB weighing the relative value of a top tier WR in the Polianed NFL vs. a top quality DL or rush LB or an OT.
UFA options per sportingnews:
1. Antonio Bryant
2. Kevin Walter
3. Derick Mason
4. Terrell Owens
5. Chris Chambers
6. Nate Burleson
I'd only want either Bryant or Walter on this team.. Mason has been done for awhile. T.O. is still a cancer. Chambers is one of the worst WRs in the league and Burleson doesn't do much.
For 2010, WR is a major issue with the residual hangover from 2009 - I don't know the top rated WRs in this draft well enough to advocate for one in round one, but I do know Mardy Gilyard and Antonio Brown who can be Deion Branch-type playmakers with a Tommy Brady pulling the trigger. Teamed with Moss, Edelman, and Tate you've got some WR/PR/KR depth for all WR positions.
Nothing against them, but I'd rather have one of those two and a later-round guy like Marcus Easley (raw, but potentially a steal), Blair White (a Gaffney type), or Kerry Meier (a QB conversion like Edelman, except that he's actually played WR for a couple of years).
Fair enough. Worth noting we have a bunch of 7th round picks with the comp picks coming, so we can take a stab at finding another Edelman, for sure.
That could be Kyle Williams of Arizona St.
Who's that?
I'd only want either Bryant or Walter on this team.. Mason has been done for awhile. T.O. is still a cancer. Chambers is one of the worst WRs in the league and Burleson doesn't do much.