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Originally Posted by Andy
I agree with Blitzwood on Iupati and CJ Spiller. From the way Slaton ran last year and our history with injured players (D.Davis-Williams), I can't help but want a fresh set of legs in the backfield and/or the addition of a solid run-blocking inside lineman.
Someone wrote on here a while back the possibility of drafting Iupati and Mike Johnson in the 1st and the 3rd and building a dominant offensive line of Brown-Iupati-Caldwell-Johnson-Winston. I love this idea on the condition that we trade down from 20 to the early 2nd/late first to draft Iupati, pick up that additional 3rd that will be used in conjunction with our 3rd to pick up Johnson and a CB or Ben Tate.
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Iupati is the only inside OL guy that should be a 1st rounder and he is IMO gone before we pick. If this team wants him and he is available they need to take him at 20, not drop down. Yes the kid is raw, but the things he can do, not many OG can do. He shows excellent feet, a solid anchor and long arms for a OG. Yes he need to work on technique, but he has the natural tools to be a great one. But he has shown he needs to be a OLG, not a ORG, because he is not comfortable on the right side.
BTW i would be in favor of going OL in the 1st and again in the 3rd. And I would be OK with us going DBs in the 1st and 2nd rounds, or Rb in the 1st and 5th rounds. I am pretty open at this point, and I already know they are going to take someone I am going to be hate or not know