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Originally Posted by skinsfan69
If we draft for need, then i would go with a DE to replace Daniels. Carriker or the guy on Ark. I'm not big on Gaines Adams. He seems more like and outside backer in a 3-4.
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I agree with you on Adams and would like Carriker or Okoye, don't know enough about Anderson. Check out the latest mock draft by Pat Kirwan on NFL.com, though. He is a really great football guy and his logic is sound, he even speculates on some possible trades and, unlike basically all other mocks, he actually thinks through the logic (and value) of the trades to both sides involved. Looking at that got me thinking and I am not sort of at a loss for who the Redskins could possibly trade down with besides Denver?
If they really want Okoye they could not really drop down below #8 because Miami could very well take him at #9. If they want one of the top three DE's then they can't go below #10 or #11. If they drop WAY down to #21 they end up with (probably) Jarvis Moss (255 lbs) being the only real 1st Round talent at DE left. So tell me, who besides the Broncos would want to move up to #6 and for what? I guess if Adrian Peterson were still on the board (as he is in Kirwan's mock) maybe they could swing something with Buffalo, but the Bills would, in that situation, probably be pretty secure in getting either Peterson or Lynch and if the Redskins did drop to #12 they would probably miss everyone they would want to target (Branch, Okoye, Adams, Anderson, Carriker) anyway. It seems increasingly that the Skins will be faced with a tough situation of chosing between an elite DL prospect or picking up Bly, getting 2nd and 3rds, and dropping WAY down to #21. Depth vs. an elite player might be the question.
One other scenario, I guess, would be that Houston falls in love with Quinn (and decide to finally dump Carr) and wants to jump Minnesota to get him or, somehow, Joe Thomas falls and Houston makes a move to jump up to get him. That might be the best scenario for the Skins because it would net them a high second round pick plus the elite DL prospect they would seem to covet.