8 hours ago
(9 hours ago)Essex Johnson Wrote: We needed DE much more than a DT. We drafted two DT tackles last year and one FA plus resigned Hill. At DE, we have Tre who has asked for a trade, did not sign any DE in FA and have no one that has had a productive year, i could care less what Steelers drafted, that should not impact our #17th pick, you can debate what DE we should of picked but DT was just not the way to go.
As for what is projected on paper and what teams see the value of the player is apples to oranges... part of one round to the other means very little when it gets it comes down to it, no one cares if a player when earlier to most thought, if they perform..... This draft had to have defense as the focus, we had a top 5 offense, it actually might be hard to duplicate that this year and did not make the playoffs, the path to the playoffs is beating Ravens, Steelers and Browns. this teams on average plays the least 11 personal in the NFL, which means we have to step up our LBs to stop the run.. i love Knight as our pick, he was not going to be there next round.. happy they took him.
I was about to post that. DE is a glaring need. We're ok at DT. Nothing spectacular, but better than DE.
