O’ Callaghan seems to be doing a pretty good job at RT and he is very young. He has potential to be VERY good. I think we should draft a LT with the 1st pick and get a Center in the 2nd round. Move Waters to RG and groom Ike to replace him when the time comes. Ndukwe seems like he could be a VERY good RG. Keep Niswanger, Alleman and Smith around for depth and try to get one more SOLID guy to be a backup Tackle. (Maybe Richardson but, I’m not impressed with him so far)

Depending on the talent that is available I think we will need to pick a running back with one of our day one picks. (Assuming we don’t get someone that is solid, but he doesn’t necessarily have to be a superstar during free agency.) Remember when all the fans hated Carl Peterson when he picked LJ in the first round when we already had Priest Holmes on the roster? Then Priest got hurt, LJ rocked, and we had LJ when Priest retired. The timing is right for another similar move.

Let’s start with what, to me, is obvious. If you don’t have Montana, Brady, Elway, Peyton Manning, etc. as your starting QB you need a dominant running back. He’s one of the top positions on your team where you need talent. In my opinion QB, RB, LT, and a pass rusher are the most important positions on your team.

I think LJ has enough gas in the tank that he could be the starter at the beginning of next year. Then he could be slowly phased from being our main RB over to the new guy being the main guy by closer to the end of the season. There aren’t many backs that come in and just tear it up like Adrian Peterson did in his first year. So a new RB will most likely need some time to get going. That’s why it makes sense to draft one next year when LJ is close to the end of his career, but not at the very end.

In fairness there is a good counter-argument to this. We need players at all kinds of different positions. So if, for example, we have a choice between a safety and a running back in the 2nd round and we think there is more upside to the safety we might have to go with him.

One of my main points here is this. In the mock drafts that I’ve seen so far there has been little emphasis on the RB position and I don’t agree with that.

Albert to guard and draft the best LT that is there; go with
ike or Allman at RG and Ocallahan or a good free agent at RT. And no Tebow there will be better options at fullback

1) good free agent o lineman cost a lot of $
2) or they are old
3) Ikechuku Ndukwe or Andy Alleman are not starting right now why should they start next year
4) we have to think long term! waters is going to retire soon and i hope we have drafted his replacement before he retires.
I think we should draft at least 2 o lineman! A tackle in round 2 and a center/guard in round 3.
we are not going to spent all of our first 3 draft picks on d. our o is terrible and needs more help.