We must draft OL early!

I have always felt that you can get solid value offensive lineman in the later rounds- 4th, 5th and 6th rounds. I REALLY believe we need to get an offensive playmaker with that first pick. I think either Limas Sweed, Malcomb Kelly or Desean Jackson will be available at that point and we need to get them. We may not have had much luck drafting receivers in the first round over the last 10 or so years (insert Michael Westbrook here) but I think these 3 receivers are going to be very good.

Marques Colston - New Orleans Saints - NFL - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8001) - Marques Colston

If we use our first pick on a WR I will be disappointed. WRs with size and ability can be found later in the draft as evident in the link above.

Granted, this is the extreme case in which it pans out, the Skins should be able to grab a tall, system compatiable, receiver later in the draft, if it is so necessary.

I feel using our 1st pick on a WR would poorly start out our most significant draft in the past 5 years.

Marques Colston - New Orleans Saints - NFL - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/8001) - Marques Colston

If we use our first pick on a WR I will be disappointed. WRs with size and ability can be found later in the draft as evident in the link above.

Granted, this is the extreme case in which it pans out, the Skins should be able to grab a tall, system compatiable, receiver later in the draft, if it is so necessary.

I feel using our 1st pick on a WR would poorly start out our most significant draft in the past 5 years.

I completely agree, I'm completely against the idea of drafting a WR in 1st rd.. There are plenty of WRs later in late drafts; beside all WRs who are projected to be 1st rder - they weren't all hyped like last yr with Calvin Johnson.. And yet look what happened to him last season..

I have always felt that you can get solid value offensive lineman in the later rounds- 4th, 5th and 6th rounds. I REALLY believe we need to get an offensive playmaker with that first pick. I think either Limas Sweed, Malcomb Kelly or Desean Jackson will be available at that point and we need to get them. We may not have had much luck drafting receivers in the first round over the last 10 or so years (insert Michael Westbrook here) but I think these 3 receivers are going to be very good.

I agree that we should use later rounds for oline, but in the first round I'm not completely sold on the fact that any of those three really even deserve to be picked in the first round.

our needs are just too prominent to draft OL in the earlier rounds. If someone really big-name is still available in the late 2nd round, I wouldnt be opposed to trading up but it would have to be someone good. Alot of O linemen can be found in the later rounds and the "big name" guys are sometimes overrated... Robert Gallery anyone? The first round and early 2nd are just too big of spots to take a gamble on a position that we dont need to spend that pick on. I would rather spent a 1st rounder on a DB, and it be bust than to spend it on a position we dont need as badly and they be a future hall of famer. Need-based risk = potential high reward IMO.

Quality OL are always found on day two. I hope Oklahoma WR Malcolm Kelly has a good showing early next month. His 40-time cannot hurt him so I'm unsure why he's making everybody wait for his personal workout. This is a big reciever with soft hands who has drooped only two passes in the last two years as a starter and has the productivity you look for for.

OL is a spot where you can pick up quality talent in the later rounds. I think we have other more pressing needs.

OL is a spot where you can pick up quality talent in the later rounds. I think we have other more pressing needs.

I agree for the most part, but if B. Albert is available at #21 I think it's a tough decision. O linemean are available in later rounds, but there's also a smaller bust factor in picking them. Of course there's the mandarich & gallery examples, but I can't think of many more.

I always think of 2000 as a great example of draft decision making; we took Samuels w/the #3 pick & passed on Peter Warrick, who the bengals got a couple picks later I think. We got a durable, franchise all pro LT & warrick is a career journeyman.

I'm not saying that it's that simple for the front office, but I think if an o line prospect looks really good, the probability seems high that the pick pays off in the end. Albert looks as close to a sure thing as there is.

Looking back at the original Hogs, May was a first round pick and Grimm was 3rd round.
Jacoby was a free agent. Bostic was cut by Eagles and we signed him to be long snapper. I'm not 100% positive on how we acquired Strake.

I feel we can find good OL in later round or via UDFA.

The more I hear about Albert- the more I like the guy. I hope the skins take him in the first. And, the more I think about it the interior of the OL, G and C, needs help more than any other area on the team. Then DT, DE, S, CB. I'd be very happy if the first 4 picks were on the DL and OL. Although the 1st rounder needs to be BAP. May turn out to be a corner. Still I'd be annoyed if the skins pass on Albert. Monster guard- safe pick. And, Samuals-Albert on the left side would be pretty impossing for the next few years.

Looking back at the original Hogs, May was a first round pick and Grimm was 3rd round.
Jacoby was a free agent. Bostic was cut by Eagles and we signed him to be long snapper. I'm not 100% positive on how we acquired Strake.

I feel we can find good OL in later round or via UDFA.

That was twenty years ago. Unless your recounting their aquitisions for your own pleasure, citing the template of a system we used in a land far away isn't going to aid this discussion.

I like the pick because its not sexy. The more unsexy picks the Skins have in this draft the more we're building the core of our team. The Skins need a couple of these picks in this draft.