Not so sure that BB sticks with his usual trade down for quantity and value in 2011, at least not entirely. Lots of youth on this team already - possibly a very a decent young base in a lot of units. Not necessarily a lot of room for new guys. So, not sure quantity helps as much now as a couple of high-end impact players.
I've been saying forever that there's no way we go for Ingram with a 1st rounder, but now I'm not as certain of that. Seems clear that we need to start looking for more future O-line starters now (not just reserves) - somewhat earlier than the 6th/7th round (heh), though probably not a 1st rounder.
The other thing is, I don't think we'll really have any idea about all positions of need until after we've seen the season play out. A lot of situations on the defensive side that are murky right now in which one of the young guys could emerge big-time and render the need at that position moot.
OTOH, 34 DE seems thin almost no matter what. It's not guaranteed that Ty Warren comes back okay from injury. Gerard Warren is old, regardless. Brace is maybe coming on okay, Deaderick isn't getting any time, though. Neither seems like the next Seymour right now, but you never know.
At OLB, Ninkovich is stretched trying to be more than an occasional relief man. TBC is capable but has no further upside and is no spring chicken. Cunningham and/or Crable might end up playing well, and one or the other might emerge as a future All-Pro, in which case, mid-round depth might be all we'd need. But both still might end up better as depth guys behind a stud we draft in 2011 (Kerrigan?).
Bodden, assuming he returns from IR at his previous playing level, is still in his prime, but McCourty seems his only potential peer at this point. Butler, like Wilhite, is looking more like merely an adequate nickel/dime guy. Wheatley seems likely never to be healthy enough. We maybe yet need that third good corner and it wouldn't be a bad thing to draft Peterson early and push McCourty down to #3.
Safety is really obscure to me. Doesn't seem like any of them are capable of covering well anymore. I'm thinking that "ya gotta have three good corners" principle sort of applies to coverage safeties, too, like we should have at least one, if not two decent ones. Maybe Page turns out to be good (we may get a read against Marshall on Monday night) and Meriweather works through whatever has his panties in a bunch and maybe this Barret kid we filched from McDaniels is the next Polumalu and we're all set. Or, they all turn out to be crap and then we're looking hard at coverage safety with Carolina's pick in the 2nd.
