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[Roy P]

Originally Posted by Joe Joe

This is the exact situation I see being very difficult for the Texans if they draft a RB in first. RBs have shorter careers so one would want to beef up line too to make full use of a first round RB. The Texans secondary is scary. And not in a good way. At least with Dunta, you knew it was possible to win games with him getting burnt as often as he does.

OK, now that I'm looking back at what happened I can now Cherry-Pick what could have been a better situation. Obviously, trading down and getting more picks would have been optimum. Mainly because the talent board didn't match our 'needs' at all. It really did not matter if I had drafted Spiller or Weatherspoon (the two highest players on my draft board) - I would have still been thinking the same way for subsequent picks. As I have said in the past, the OL could be beefed up even with having signed a Free Agent from KC.

20. RB C.J. Spiller
51. OG John Jerry
81. RB Ben Tate
118. CB Alterraun Verner
150. DE Daniel Te'o-Nesheim
187. CB Walter McFadden
197. DT Earl Mitchell
227. LB Simoni Lawrence

The other option is that I could simply draft Ben Tate at #20 (I like him more than Ryan Mathews anyway and I've seen that as an acceptable idea)
Then I could still get Jerry in the 2nd round and at #81 I could go after FS Major Wright.

If I wanted to get Geno Atkins as my pass-rushing DT I couldn't wait until the 3rd round like I wanted, so I'd need to spend my 2nd rounder on him. UGH!

Perhaps if I had two 5th round picks I could get DE Daniel Te'o-Nesheim AND FS Robert Johnson.