Advice to Colbert...

[NJ-STEELER]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

its a pretty deep draft


trade down with dallas and pick up their 1st (27) and 2nd (59)



that would give us 27,52,and 59.


then we could probably move back into that area with some of the other picks we have.

4 picks in the top 60 of a good draft

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

[quote="NJ-STEELER"]its a pretty deep draft


trade down with dallas and pick up their 1st (27) and 2nd (59)



that would give us 27,52,and 59.


then we could probably move back into that area with some of the other picks we have.

4 picks in the top 60 of a good draft[/quote]



27, 52 and 59 makes three picks in the top 60, not four. still pretty good, however...

[NJ-STEELER]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

thats why i said use the rest of the picks (3rd/4th/5th) to move back into the top 60, silly

[hawaiiansteel]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

thats why i said use the rest of the picks (3rd/4th/5th) to move back into the top 60, silly

sorry, didn't catch that part...distracted watching March Madness.


i like your idea of trading down with Dallas and acquiring three picks in the Top 60, but i would rather then hang onto our 3rd, 4th and 5th picks...this is a really deep draft.

but i do like the way you think!

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

I posted a similar suggestion here:

[url]http://www.planetsteelers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11069[/url]

You mean we are supposed to read what you post?

I read what you post.

(because most of the time it is an article written by another, professional writer)

[aggiebones]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

While I'm not overly opposed to moving up somewhere in the draft, remember that late 1st rounders are not guarantees. I wonder what the success rate of late first rounders versus 2nd rounders actually is.
I think I'd rather swing at our 1st, 2nd and 3rd picks versus having our 1st and the 28th for instance. Its better to have 3 swings at success than 2. Looking at our last 5 years, I wonder whether we have more success in the first round or 2nd and 3rd combined.

[RuthlessBurgher]

Re: Advice to Colbert...

While I'm not overly opposed to moving up somewhere in the draft, remember that late 1st rounders are not guarantees. I wonder what the success rate of late first rounders versus 2nd rounders actually is.
I think I'd rather swing at our 1st, 2nd and 3rd picks versus having our 1st and the 28th for instance. Its better to have 3 swings at success than 2. Looking at our last 5 years, I wonder whether we have more success in the first round or 2nd and 3rd combined.

Don't even have to look that one up. First rounders on our roster include Hood, Mendenhall, Timmons, Holmes, Miller, Roethlisberger, Polamalu, Hampton. How many 2nd or 3rd rounders have made a major impact? Wallace? Woodley? Starks?