McNair: "In the draft, we’ll be looking at linebackers"

[Keith]

Originally Posted by jppaul

Here's the thing Keith, it just might be misdirection in a sense. We probably are going after a LB, but we could also be looking at some of the other higher rated players that likely won't be available at 15.

Now if teams traded in front of us to take Cushing and Matthews, this forces to prospects down that wouldn't be there if the LBs weren't taken. For instance, lets suppose that a team in front of us was looking at Jenkins and a team behind us jumped up the other teams spot to grab Cushing or Matthews because they know we will take one of those.

Then as a result, Jenkins is still on the board then we would take Jenkins. It is in essence a ploy for forcing a player down the board who likely wouldn't have been there for our pick.

I understand your speculated ploy, I just don't believe it. If this is how we end up drafting Jenkins though, I'll take it.

Megan Manfull of the chron was on an ESPN mock a few days ago and predictably selected Clay for the Texans. Jenkins was off the board, but she brought his name up as someone the team would be very interested in should he fall to 15. fwiw, she also mentioned Raji and Jerry, too, so whatevs.