Draft Hybrid Mock

one of the supposed beauties of the 3-4 is being able to find pass rushing OLB's in the later rounds. Not saying it always happens but if you are just looking for a pass rushing OLB then there's Jenkins from Florida St. and a few others in the 3rd-4th. I'm not saying I would be opposed to Jones @15 and a lot will depend on what we do with Bushrod. I'm not high on signing a LT that consistently needs help to top tier money when (and this is in this mock draft) his replacement can be had for much, much cheaper.

I'm really starting the think if one of the top 3 CB's (Millner, Rhodes, Trufant) are there we will take one of them but in this mock they are not. We also have a lot of unknowns in our own defense like Junior, Wilson, Broughton that can be OLB pass rushers. I don't know what will happen in FA so it's extremely hard to predict a draft at this point. Just saying if it plays out like this I'd go with a top 3 LT, but that's just my choice.

Is Fluker even projected to play LT in the NFL or RT? I see him as more of a RT candidate.


The problem I see is there's no guarantee we get any of these good late round OLB's, we've got more chance of getting a good pass rusher by taking one of the top guys in the first round.

We'll see what happens in free agency but even if we got a guy like Kruger I'd still want a Jarvis Jones/Jordan/Ansah/Mingo/etc just in case one or the other doesn't work out.

And don't forget we're ultra-thin at OLB anyway we can't just stock up on UDFA OLB's if we go in a different direction in the first round and we fail to get any good linebackers in the late rounds.