You only take a RB in round 1 if he is special like Adrian Peterson or Chris Johnson. Ryan Mathews isn’t special. Heck, he may not even start if he were drafted. Round 1 pick needs to be an unquestioned starter.

Hardesty in round 3 is the better pick and allows us to get 2 other starters at CB, DT, OG/C, or even FS.

I see a last minute trade in rnd 3 for Chris Meyers for so we can pick up a TE, hey we could always change him to a C right?

Let’s talk about what Lance was talking about. Goodbye, Alex Gibbs! Don’t worry about sending any postcards!

On Seattle’s 1st round. I agree on what Lance said. I see a OT with the 6th pick and with the 14th, although I have seen some mockers taking Ryan Mathews at that spot, I don’t think it will happen. I believe Mathews will make it all the way to 20 and I am undecided if I think the Texans will take him. Right now, I would say about 33% confidence level on that. If you were to ask the Texans for an honest answer, sworn under super secrecy, with hope to die if you told a lie….they would probably tell you the same thing. It would probably be 33% Dan Williams and 33% Earl Thomas. And, since Williams and Thomas will likely be gone at 20, that leaves Mathews. So, what are the Texans gonna do???

Please please let it be a guard who will last us for years to come not some RB who if we are lucky we will get only a few good seasons out of.

That’s unpossible!

some crap that blocks these guys ^

Our shit run game starts with Alex Gibbs.

Wiz wit dat spamors shet! Fuck dem hos. Beledat!!

I agree that you shouldn’t use a first round pick on a RB, but once you get out of the first 10 picks or so the financial investment + relatively short lifespan equation isn’t quite so skewed. Sure there are plenty of good RB’s later, but you can find examples of that with every position.

At 20 I don’t have a major problem taking a RB if that’s the best player available. If there’s a DT or CB in the mix that the scouts have graded about the same then RB probably loses the tiebreaker though. If you have the RB rated as a better prospect you have to go ahead and take him. I would rather do that than take a CB who I had questions on because that is a greater need. It all comes down to the specific players on the board when the your team is on the clock. Speaking in the generalities of positions only get you so far.

I don’t obsess over the draft like I used to. I still follow the shit out of the whole process (and maybe even had a window with streaming coverage of the combine open at work). I just don’t get too worked up about it. No matter how much time I spend I’m never going to have as much information as the guys who actually work in the draft room. That doesn’t mean I don’t have players I lke, or a preference when it comes to draft day. It just means I’m not going to throw things when they don’t take that small school DB I was convinced was going to be a stud and who’s name I can’t even remember I wanted in the fourth. (BTW I think they used that pick on a guy sometimes referred to as “Snake Dick” instead)

2000 – No 5 Jamal Lewis; No 7 Thomas Jones
2001 – No 5 Ladainian Tomlinson
2002 – None
2003 – None
2004 – None
2005 – No 2 Ronnie Brown; No 4 Cedric Benson; No 5 Cadillac Williams
2006 – No 2 Reggie Bush
2007 – No 7 Adrian Peterson
2008 – No 4 Darren McFadden
2009 – None

I wondered if the ZBS had jumped the shark. Now I wonder if perhaps it was Alex Gibbs who jumped the shark. Reading this makes me wish Baby Shan had stuck around.