Do You Draft for Need or Best Player Available?

[SBXVII]

I can't see drafting BPA cause I can't see us with a whole team of LB's or a whole team of CB's, Safeties, WR's or QB's. I've been more of the person who thinks you draft for need. If your team has a hole why would you draft everything but what you need? which is what Cerrato always did. So for me I think the team should be drafting BPA at the position the team has a need for. We need:

QB
OL
FS
LB
RB

None in any specific order. If those are the positions we need then take the BPA at anyone of those positions. Then there is all the other factors...

If OL is the position we have the most need for then pick the BPA at that position, but if the position has a large talented draft pool and we have a need elswhere which has a small talented draft pool, ie; QB, then I'd say pick for the position that has the least talent first.

Then there is the issue of whether the HC feels he needs an upgrade at QB. There are a lot of decent QB's. None that I know of went to a SB though. Most of the SB QB's are top tier franchise QB's. Finding a franchise QB late in the draft is like finding a needle in a hay stack or a diamond in the rough. It can be done but it just doesn't happen every year. So if the HC is not sold on any of his QB's he already has then he needs to pick one up as high in the draft as he can get to get the better talent. Otherwise we are trading out one decent QB for another decent QB. We will be just spinning our wheels. Considering we did so poorly last year and how high we are placed in the draft this year, and the fact that there is a lot of OL talent in this years draft, plus the fact the top OL in the draft is rumored to not fit our scheme, plus the fact that the HC will most likely have more wins then last year putting us farther away from the top tier QB talent next year I'd say we need the QB position first. If the QB we wanted is gone and the BPA at OL is gone and the one we want is not projected as a 1st round talent then try to move back and gain more picks. If moving back is not happening then either draft the OL we wanted at a higher cost then he should have gone, pick the next best QB, or pick at another position we need, ie; FS, LB, or RB.