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Given the lack of investment by the team at the Strong Safety position it could be a real possibility to use a high pick to draft one.
There certainly is only one consensus #1 Safety this year in Hamilton and we won't probably have any chance to grab him. Then en there's a group of 3 guys that are ranked as late 1st early 2nd prospects: Dax Hill, Lewis Cine and Jaquan Brisker who close out the upper echelon players at the positiok. Then another cluster of 2nd/3round ranked guys with Jalen Pitre, Cook, Cross and McKinley, after this I think talent dilutes and any player taken is a raw developmental guy or athletically limited to be an instant contributor to the team.
Any scenario is open of course, the team could even decide that they want to invest their 1.20 at SS, as improbable as it might sound, like they did with Edmunds because they see a guy that could be the next great Steeler Safety and make a super tandem with Minkah. Of the three top guys there despite Hill being ranked higher I don't see him as a SS, he looks more like a FS/Nickel CB and would be redundant with Minkah.
Cine and Brisker are more in the mold of a SS that are also good in coverage, yet Brisker could blanket either CBS or TEs and still lay the wood when needed while Cine is more of the near the box enforcer that can cover too but don't ask him to take on a WR deep from the line of scrimmage. Both of these guys could start from the get go as rookies
I like the other guys in the later rounds too, Pitre, Cross, Cook but not McKinley as he is more of a FS but the others seem like could be plug and play players, with theirs warts but talented enough to play some as rookies.
Any thoughts in these guys? What do you think of the possibility of getting a 1st round S and which would you like? A trade down with the Lions to 1.32 would be a real possibility if they don't draft QB with their early 1st.
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There certainly is only one consensus #1 Safety this year in Hamilton and we won't probably have any chance to grab him. Then en there's a group of 3 guys that are ranked as late 1st early 2nd prospects: Dax Hill, Lewis Cine and Jaquan Brisker who close out the upper echelon players at the positiok. Then another cluster of 2nd/3round ranked guys with Jalen Pitre, Cook, Cross and McKinley, after this I think talent dilutes and any player taken is a raw developmental guy or athletically limited to be an instant contributor to the team.
Any scenario is open of course, the team could even decide that they want to invest their 1.20 at SS, as improbable as it might sound, like they did with Edmunds because they see a guy that could be the next great Steeler Safety and make a super tandem with Minkah. Of the three top guys there despite Hill being ranked higher I don't see him as a SS, he looks more like a FS/Nickel CB and would be redundant with Minkah.
Cine and Brisker are more in the mold of a SS that are also good in coverage, yet Brisker could blanket either CBS or TEs and still lay the wood when needed while Cine is more of the near the box enforcer that can cover too but don't ask him to take on a WR deep from the line of scrimmage. Both of these guys could start from the get go as rookies
I like the other guys in the later rounds too, Pitre, Cross, Cook but not McKinley as he is more of a FS but the others seem like could be plug and play players, with theirs warts but talented enough to play some as rookies.
Any thoughts in these guys? What do you think of the possibility of getting a 1st round S and which would you like? A trade down with the Lions to 1.32 would be a real possibility if they don't draft QB with their early 1st.
Salute the Nation
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