Day 1 Draft Grade

C It was a great move trading back with Atlanta. Because of it, you get two of the guys we were considering with the #21 pick. The more I think about it taking 2 wr's this close together was probably really smart. Half of recent early round wr's bust out (Gardner, Mike Williams, Rashaun Woods, Micheal Jenkins....etc) and those that prove worthy take more than a season (Calvin Johnson, Braylon Edwards, Sinorice Moss, etc). So I guess the hope is that one of them will be a good player for the 2009 season. Davis will be a great addition. None of them will make an impact in 2008 though and with 3 picks in the early to mid second you expect at least one to be an immediate impact guy.

This was the first year of the modern draft in which they did not hold the 3rd round on day one. It will be interesting to see after they make their pick in the 3rd whether everybody will have the same "sky is falling" response.

Exactly. If we got defensive players they could have. Also seems like we drafted on skill not need. One WR is a need but two is not needed because one will never even see the field. Also there is no way to spin it but TE is NOT a need.


why wont both see the field? this just means it will be the end for thrash or mix. mathis we strictly a returner or we coulde even release him if needed. both of these rookies will get to play. moss has had some nagging injuries the last couple years. and randle el is more of a #3 WR than a #2. these guys will get there chance this year. but in 2009 they will have a huge role in our offense

I give them a B for getting good value, being patient and grabbing some big receivers. This was a huge need for the Skins and I'm glad they addressed it. The Fred Davis pick was a bit of a luxury, but I had every player they took higher on my board than Quentin Groves (the end I wanted).

My first day here and I love you guys that have knowledge. O-line, D-Line? starting with D-line. We have young tackles that we are developing. Montgomery, Golston. They didnt do bad last year and may improve. Lets not forget that a little secret is that Chris Wilson is an animal rushing at DE he just needs to work on run support, but he can rush the passer. A. Carter, beast! O-line is getting Older but we get back Thomas and Jansen. Kendall is the oldest one. every one else has at least two good years. Who knows with Jansen but Stephon Heyer did well as a rookie and will get better and better. You do remember Thomas and Jansen right? The meanest S.O.B.'s on our line! We win 3 more gams last year, maybe 4 if we can just get the ball in the endzone inside the redzone. Lastly, when the day started if someone said Thomas would fall to us we'd have been excited. But if we knew we would get Thomas AND Kelly we would have all messed ourselves. Come on, give Vinny some well deserved props on this one.

B... and I feel that we could not pass on Malcolm Kelly. There is still plenty of talent left to address the DE and CB position. We still have lots of picks left with alot of quality players out there. This is a draft that I have been dreaming of for years. Dont be surprised to see Zorny go after a QB later on. We need some depth but not before we get some depth behind Dline and Def backfeild!! Overall, there isnt much we could have done (except take Flowers somewhere) to make this draft go any better.

I'm not gonna throw out a grade for day 1 b/c i think it would be unfair unless you let the whole thing play out and see how Cerrato intends to bring this all together (like watching a movie halfway through, walking out, and making a judgement).

If it does turn out to be that we keep 2 WR's and a TE with our first 3 picks, i think Cerrato might have the following reasons for this:

1) He knows that next year's free agent class will be a little more wide open. Maybe he wants to be able to get some cap room in order to get some proven vets by letting ARE's $6 mill contract go.
2) The probability that both of these WR's are gonna be busts is very remote. Cerrato is probably thinking this is the surest way to improve for the long term at arguably our most needed position.
3) Maybe Zorn's new offense hinges on using Cooley more as a WR than a traditional TE or H-back. In this case we might need to have a large traditional TE who can block and provide a large target in the red zone.
4) Maybe we are high on some linemen in the later rounds of the draft who can be groomed to supplant our starters in two to three years.

I just hope Justice from Wake is still available.

I gave a C. We could have added Quentin (sp?) Groves if I'm not mistaken instead of a 2nd receiver. And we could have added more depth on the o-line.

c'mon who's giving day 1 a D?? :doh: