At #8 we took Jamaal Anderson, DE from Arkansas. He looks pretty good from what I've seen and we needed a DE after Patrick Kerney sold out and left for a big payday. Him and John Abraham will be a good combo for a long time if Abraham can stay healthy, which is unlikely. At least now we won't have 2 undrafted players at DE like last year when both Kerney and Abraham were hurt.
At #39 we took OG/OT Justin Blalock from Texas. I really like this pick being a Texas fan. He is a guy I like and he fits our needs perfectly. He is huge and we needed to beef up our O-Line and has experience at tackle and guard. He will probably be our left guard. He is really smart too, he had one of the highest Wonderlic scores at the Combine. That's good because Atlanta has a lot of dumbasses. Rich McKay (Atlanta GM) said in the press conference yesterday that he was trying to trade back into the first round to take Blalock but luckily he fell to the 2nd.
At #41 we traded up a few spots to take Chris Houston, CB from Arkansas. Most places had him rated as the third best corner in the draft, so I guess again it's good value in the 2nd round. Drafting him means we are going to move Jimmy Williams to safety. He was our first pick last year and there has been constant debate about whether he's better suited to play FS or corner. Now he will easily win the FS spot from Chris Crocker, who is a SS who was played out of position last year and it cost us. Stand could probably cover deep better than him. Williams excels in coverage. Back to Houston, he is sorta small at 5'9 or 5'10 but most scouts say he is the toughest corner in the draft. It's about time we got another decent corner, because aside from Deangelo Hall we haven't had a decent #2 corner for a while. Jason Webster sucks something awful and Allen Rossum is even worse. Kevin Mathis was a good nickel back but he broke his neck and probably won't play again.
Overall I am really happy with the first 3 picks. After that, I think we've had a shitty draft.
In the 3rd round, we took Laurent Robinson, a WR from 1-AA Illinois State. Being a fan of 1-AA football, I'm not knocking it, but I dont understand picking him with some good linemen on the board that we could use desperately. Rich McKay also blows at drafting WRs.
In the 4th round, we took Stephen Nicholas and Martrez Milner. Nicholas is an OLB from South Florida and Milner is a TE from Georgia. We are really deep at OLB and TE so I don't really get either of these picks when we have holes that need to be filled. I don't know too much about Nicholas but Milner blows. His hands are terrible, and thats the last thing we need in Atlanta. Hopefully he is going to be an H-back or something where he can block in the running game.
For our 5th round pick, we traded it to Jacksonville for 3 6th rounders. Now we have 4. I'm pretty mad because with the 5th pick we could've had Josh Gattis who went 1 pick after when ours woulda been. We need safety depth. Also Mason Crosby, the kicker was there. I want him, because we've been using stop gaps for a few years since Jay Feely left, but he blew too so he was essentially a long stopgap.
Our first two rounds were an A+, since then maybe a C+ or B-.
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your first rounder is a beast, i saw him play in the capital one bowl in orlando. he wrecked the shit out of a Wisconsin running game that had one of the best offensive lines in the country and a freshman who made an apperance on the heisman watch list.
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