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New 2 round mock just out from Pat Kiran at nfl.com. It's using that confusing format where the 2nd round picks are listed under the team rather than in sequential order:
Mock draft 5.0: New No. 1 overall pick, but it's still not Stafford
For the Pats he has:
23. Clay Mathews, LB
34. Connor Barwin, OLB
47. Donald Brown, RB
58. Paul Kruger, DE
He still has Chicago picking at #18, which is ludicrous this far out from the Cutler trade, so it seems rather sloppy to me.
3 LB prospects in the top 4 seems silly for the Pats. I actually like the combination of Matthews and Barwin. Barwin is my binky, 'nuff said there. Matthews looked really fluid at his pro day and you could see he safety background in the way he moved. I still think he might move inside to SILB - he's not the typical thumper type and he needs to work on taking on lineman, but Guyton wasn't a prototypical SILB either. However, with both Louis Delmas (going #36 to Cleveland) and William Beatty (going #40 to the Raiders) available I probably would have preferred Barwin at 23 and one of those guys at 34, or to trade up.
I think Donald Brown's a great back - he reminds me a bit of D'Angelo Williams in 2006, whom I wanted over Maroney; I like the way he runs low to the ground in traffic, and the way he catches out of the backfield - but with Jarron Gilbert going #48 to Denver it is hard to pass him up. And I don't see Kruger at 58 at all. Not with William Moore still on the board at safety.
I'd be quite happy with Matthews, Barwin, Donald Brown and Will Moore on the first day. I'd probably prefer Barwin, Beatty, Gilbert and Moore even more, but I'm not at all unhappy with the Matthews and Brown picks.
Mock draft 5.0: New No. 1 overall pick, but it's still not Stafford
For the Pats he has:
23. Clay Mathews, LB
34. Connor Barwin, OLB
47. Donald Brown, RB
58. Paul Kruger, DE
He still has Chicago picking at #18, which is ludicrous this far out from the Cutler trade, so it seems rather sloppy to me.
3 LB prospects in the top 4 seems silly for the Pats. I actually like the combination of Matthews and Barwin. Barwin is my binky, 'nuff said there. Matthews looked really fluid at his pro day and you could see he safety background in the way he moved. I still think he might move inside to SILB - he's not the typical thumper type and he needs to work on taking on lineman, but Guyton wasn't a prototypical SILB either. However, with both Louis Delmas (going #36 to Cleveland) and William Beatty (going #40 to the Raiders) available I probably would have preferred Barwin at 23 and one of those guys at 34, or to trade up.
I think Donald Brown's a great back - he reminds me a bit of D'Angelo Williams in 2006, whom I wanted over Maroney; I like the way he runs low to the ground in traffic, and the way he catches out of the backfield - but with Jarron Gilbert going #48 to Denver it is hard to pass him up. And I don't see Kruger at 58 at all. Not with William Moore still on the board at safety.
I'd be quite happy with Matthews, Barwin, Donald Brown and Will Moore on the first day. I'd probably prefer Barwin, Beatty, Gilbert and Moore even more, but I'm not at all unhappy with the Matthews and Brown picks.