Our 2010 First Round Draft Pick Should Be...

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What about Matt Ryan, Joe Flacco, Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Phillip Rivers, Eli Manning, Jay Cutler, Aaron Rodgers, Carson Palmer....

About half those guys would be moderately successful here in our current situation without major organizational overhaul, and pretty much every one of those guys (that could succeed here) was a top three draft pick. We don't figure to be picking in the top three, and there is maybe one of that type of player in this draft anyway, if that.

If there's a "first-overall" type quarterback, you take him. If there's not, we can do better.

We'll probably be picking between 7 and 12, so there will be good quarterbacks available for us there, but those same guys will probably be available in the second round. And I'm not a subscriber to the "you have to get someone this year" philosophy. Learn to do something well on offense first, and then pick a quarterback who can help to emphasize that strength.

And if that something happens to be "run the football", then pretty much anyone will suffice.