Post by One on Jan 17, 2019 10:32:35 GMT -5
I know many of you are against drafting a RB early, SB winners don't normally have that top flight RB. I guess there are a couple of ways to look at that, money and scheme. Spending a good amount of your cap on a RB limits a team in other, arguably more important areas and building a scheme around a player other than QB basically does the same thing ... right? But what's "early?"
I think the Eagles are doing the right thing by concentrating on the lines first. After all, a RB won't do much if there aren't holes, a receiver isn't worth much if the QB doesn't have time and it's really hard to cover a receiver if he has all day to get open. But this year they'll have three picks in the first 57 picks, probably 5 picks in the first 130 and 6 in 165. And that's without any Howieantics.
Right now they have Clement, Scott, Adams, Smallwood and
Pumphrey under contract for 2019. Maybe they'll resign Ajayi and/or Sproles for another year but both would have to be considered question marks due to age and health. I'm sure we all agree they need to add a good RB ... FA, draft or both?
A FA will be much less cap friendly which is important for a cap strapped team but will probably be a better blocker which is important. But who's available? Ingram, Hunt, Bell, Ajayi and Sproles? Looks to me like they'll need to go the draft route, and anyone they can rely on will probably need to be drafted fairly early. Without a third round pick that leaves either one of the seconds or a fourth because I doubt they'd use their first pick on a RB and they need more than a fifth rounder will likely give them.
I think the Eagles are doing the right thing by concentrating on the lines first. After all, a RB won't do much if there aren't holes, a receiver isn't worth much if the QB doesn't have time and it's really hard to cover a receiver if he has all day to get open. But this year they'll have three picks in the first 57 picks, probably 5 picks in the first 130 and 6 in 165. And that's without any Howieantics.
Right now they have Clement, Scott, Adams, Smallwood and
Pumphrey under contract for 2019. Maybe they'll resign Ajayi and/or Sproles for another year but both would have to be considered question marks due to age and health. I'm sure we all agree they need to add a good RB ... FA, draft or both?
A FA will be much less cap friendly which is important for a cap strapped team but will probably be a better blocker which is important. But who's available? Ingram, Hunt, Bell, Ajayi and Sproles? Looks to me like they'll need to go the draft route, and anyone they can rely on will probably need to be drafted fairly early. Without a third round pick that leaves either one of the seconds or a fourth because I doubt they'd use their first pick on a RB and they need more than a fifth rounder will likely give them.
