Redskins Draft 2006 - Primer and Needs

[shallyshal]

Originally Posted by That Guy

at our pick this year we would have gotten omar jacobs who isn't as good or been involved in a MASSIVE bidding war to move up and take culter who i'm not nearly as high on as a lot of others.

I like that we diddn't try to bandaid the QB spot like dallas has done. at the 2nd pick we could very easily get a starting SS (like greg blue), a starting TE (klop), a starting G (C spencer, who can play tackle too... the only reason he's low is due to being a 2 year starter (spent his first 2 years as a DT) and he needs to work on technique a bit). In the 3rd we could get a situational pass rusher (lawson, mcclover) or a starting blocking TE (tim day who can catch too). We can get undrafted guys for punter and WR #4 (6'6" D quillen).

so we can still get immediate help with future upside.

53 players on a roster, 7 picks a year... players don't play for 53 or even 26 years, so that means 3rd rounders and beyond make up a large part of a roster and 2nd and 3rd rounders have to start for each team just based on numbers alone.

even more importantly, if you have starters who were 4th and 5th rounders they are tremendous value as far as the cap is concerned because their contracts are cheap. even better with free agents, although their original contracts tend to be much shorter and so they want starters money as soon as they can get it. look at the pats who have some low round picks starting. it allows them to spend bigger bucks on their free agents. they do so many things well in the front office.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by shallyshal

even more importantly, if you have starters who were 4th and 5th rounders they are tremendous value as far as the cap is concerned because their contracts are cheap. even better with free agents, although their original contracts tend to be much shorter and so they want starters money as soon as they can get it. look at the pats who have some low round picks starting. it allows them to spend bigger bucks on their free agents. they do so many things well in the front office.

the pats dont waste 4th-7th round picks on people they know won't make the roster either or ditch picks so quickly, which hurts the cap (since you then need FAs which cot more to fill spots).