You take Hutchinson over Neal. We are OK at tackle with Fant and Moses. Becton is coming back. If he was toast, I'd consider a tackle but he's coming back. You've gotta ride it out with him.
I'm not taking a right tackle #3 overall. Take an elite edge rusher and it speeds up the defensive rebuild, especially if Lawson comes back strong.
Our interior is the problem and if you fix right guard, we're a lot better off.
If the draft were today, I'm taking Aidan Hutchinson at 3 and WR1 at #7 (Garrett Wilson/Drake London/Treylon Burks).
Go get a pass rusher and a #1 WR.
I agree. As much as I want to build the wall, we really just need to get one more interior lineman building block. We're a below average line, but it's no longer a massive liability that prevents us from running offense, and with Becton/AVT in tow, you imagine they will continue to get better and make the line better with them. Going from bad to average at OG and from below average to average at center would do so much for our OL.
I've done little draft prep, but positionally, WR and pass rusher are the two positions I want most (or TE, but there's no Pitts in this draft).
I could hear arguments for a defensive back like Hamilton or Stingley as well, but edge rusher and WR are what we need most IMO. And yes, we're OK at edge if Lawson and Huff are healthy, and we're OK at receiver with Davis/Moore/Cole/Crowder/Mims. But turning WR from mediocre to a legitimate strength is a big reason how the Bengals helped Burrow in year 2. I questioned taking Chase over Sewell, but I think that's worked out for them. A gamebreaker receiver to complement Moore would do as much to help Wilson as any offensive lineman.
And you can never have enough edge rushers. Especially given how much we rotate. Hell, we rotate our WR, too. An edge rusher would make our defensive backs look a lot better, and nothing would help us force more turnovers. Out of all the awful things about our defense, the complete inability to intercept a pass might be chief among them.
