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I love your thought process and would be happy with the players you mention. My only reservation is that I think when the draft arrives, many of those players will not be available where you have them picked ... but if they were I agree they'd be great picks. Justin Hunter and Xavier Rhodes will both be gone before we pick in round 2, with a good possibility Zach Ertz will be gone as well. Sure, I'd LOVE to get all 3 of those guys, but I just don't think that's realistic.
Rhodes is a great fit for us because he has the size to match up against some of the big elite WR's we're seeing and the speed to cover the deep threats. He's from Miami so I don't really think we have the worry that he'll lose focus here. I suspect he'll be the third CB selected after Milliner and Banks but before guys like Amerson and Poyer, so he's probably an early 2nd round pick, and I'd be shocked if he lasted to our 2a pick. He's definitely not lasting until our 2b or 3a picks though.
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Depending upon how Ertz measures, he could be the first TE taken and is definitely a guy who could go anywhere from late 1st through mid 2nd, so we may have a shot at him, but it is an iffy proposition at this point. He'd be a great addition also though, nice point OP.
Justin Hunter is even more of an enigma than Ertz. If he tests out healthy he'll be selected in the top 20 for sure. Physically he resembles AJ Green or Randy Moss with height, long arms, superior leaping ability to be the fantastic high-pointer that is too big to be covered by CB's. But, he also has that elite 4.43 sprinter speed of Green and Moss that freightens defenses deep on every play. If he's healthy, medically sound and his speed has fully returned, his measurables will put him around where our 1st round pick is, and he may go before that. But, this is going to be a very very deep WR draft (lucky for us!). So, if he doesn't test well and runs a 4.5, teams may prefer to wait until the 2nd round and take whomever is left ... but Hunter would still only be behind--at most--Allen, Patterson and Austin, so be picked before our 2a pick most. If we want the guy, regardless of how he tests, we need to take him in the 1st round. IMHO that would be a very good choice.
We all love the fact that we have 5 choices in the top 3 rounds, but the odd part of that is that most of the picks we really want are late 1st through early 2nd picks like WR's and TE's. Think about it, that range will likely see guys like this go off the board (in no particular order): Tyler Eifert, Zach Ertz, Justin Hunter, Cordarrelle Patterson, Tavon Austin, Robert Woods, Terrance Williams, DeAndre Hopkins, Da'Rick Rogers. That's a lot of quality WR's and my top two TE's. I'm sure some of those and a few other quality ones (e.g. maybe Steadman Bailey, Quinton Patton) will slip past the early 2nd, but clearly that's the meat of what we want to come away with from this draft--a corps of pass catchers to grow with Ryan Tannehill.
So, I wouldn't at all be surprised to see us trade into that zone ... most likely trading our 1st rounder back. Teams will want to trade up for LT's which are scarce this draft, or one of the workout warrior pass rushers who are sure to convince some GM's they're the next JPP and others that they're the next Vernon Gholston. But, the last one or two of those trench guys may be dangling around our pick and we might pick up decent value to drop back into the fertile late-1st/early-2nd range. I can't see Ireland passing that up.
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