Mock Drafts

Steve Smith - 73 receptions, 138 targets, 52.9%, 1174 yards, 8.51 yards per target, 4 tds
Greg Olsen - 69 receptions, 104 targets, 66.3%, 843 yards, 8.11 ypt, 5 tds
Brandon LaFell - 44 receptions, 76 targets, 57.9%, 677 yards, 8.91 ypt, 4 tds
Louis Murphy - 25 receptions, 60 targets, 41.7%, 336 yards, 5.6 ypt, 1 td
Mike Tolbert - 27 receptions, 39 targets, 69.2%, 268 yards, 6.87 ypt, 0 tds
DeAngelo Williams - 13 receptions, 20 targets, 65%, 87 yards, 4.35 ypt, 2 tds
Jonathan Stewart - 17 receptions, 23 targets, 73.9%, 157 yards, 6.83 ypt, 1 td

I post this again simply to show that Steve wasn't carrying the passing offense in 2012. You could get similar production from having a second quality tight end and by replacing Louis Murphy with someone competent.

 

I'm hoping David Gettis can recover. Good player.

If one of those good OLBs drops (Dion Jordan, Jarvis Jones, or maybe even Mingo) they may grab them there to get some pass rush.

 

I think that's even less likely than WR. It's neat to think about for a 3-4, though.

 

So I take it no one thinks Dion Jordan can play end in 4-3? Just watching him on tape he seems like he could do it. Shit if Bruce Irvin can, I don't see why Jordan can't.

 

Irvin's a Leo not a true down end and his awful play against the run was exposed in the playoff when Clemons went down.

 

No doubt Austin is a tantalizing talent. The Oklahoma game is just sick, but he lines up in the backfield for alot of those plays. If he could become a talent like Smitty, you surely wouldnt call taking him at 14 a reach. But I gotta agree with Collin, right now he looks like a slot guy and a returner and we have a bunch of those guys already in Pilares, AE and Adams. Those guys need time on the field to develop or you might as well cut the bunch of them. We need to draft a guy at 14 that will see the field all 3 downs.

I think Allen, Hopkins, Woods or Hunter are what we need, we need proven starting WR's. Not developmental guys like Patterson or Denard Robinson. We cant be wasting 3 years developing guys anymore.

Interesting we worked out Hopkins the other day and Allen is working out at Proehelific Park with Ricky. So I think its definately something they are looking to address.

Its entirely possible the top OTs, OGs, DT's and CB's are all gone by 14.

 

Define top? I can't see lane Johnson, star, the Missouri dt,Warmack, cooper, and Milner all being gone. Not to mention Rhodes

 

Luke Joeckel
Eric Fisher
Lane Johnson
Chance Warmack
Jonathan Cooper
Sharrif Floyd
Star Lotulelei
Sheldon Richardson
Dee Milliner
Xavier Rhodes

So that's ten guys. For all ten to be gone by #14, you'd obviously need for only three of Bjoern Werner, Dion Jordan, Jarvis Jones, Ezekiel Ansah, Barkevious Mingo, and Cordarrelle Patterson to be taken, plus no reaches like Geno Smith. That seems really unlikely.

 

At what point would you take Werner if he was sitting there at 14?

 

Jones, Jordan and Ansah are the 3 id imagine. Warners stock is all over the place. See alot of guys rating him a later 1st rounder.

Im still holding out hope Smith and Barkley go early and after Nix's phone conversation and Fitz getting cut that all but a formality IMO.