Market For Tackles In 2010 NFL Draft May Get Tighter

I know FA hasn’t even started yet, but I could see the Redskins trying to sign every O-line FA on the market. I think Shanahan will try to get the QB of the future in WAS and they will use that pick on one. Either way all this talk of trading out of the #5 pick for us is something i really dont want to do. We will get a very good player at 5 and we will have to pay them. Hopefully we can turn this ship around so we arent picking in the 1-10’s anymore.

I’m pretty sure he was their Left Tackle…but that means even more

Redskins pick Okung. Or the best LT on their board.

I don’t see us picking at 5 with the depth of draftable talent. Too many team will have to reach for that QB like Clausen or Bradford because next years QB class will not be as deep.

to draft an offensive tackle top 5 if isn’t comparable to Orlando Pace or Jonathan Ogden. Look at the last 5 SB champs LT:

1. New Orleans – J Bushrod (4th round)
2. Pittsburgh – M Starks (3rd round)
3. NYG – D Deil (5th round)
4. Colts – Tarik Glenn (1st round, pick 19)
5. Patriots – Matt Light (2nd round)

Doesn’t look like you even need a top 15 pick at LT. You have go back to Baltimore and St. Louis to find a top 5 LT in the two guys I stated above.

I’m all for as many LT’s being taken ahead of us as pssible, so a player we can actually use (Berry, McClain) drops down, since LT would be an insanely dumb pick for the Chiefs, when we just drafted a franchise LT 2 years ago, who has shown the ability Albert has.

I mean, Okung should just be called the “least worst” of the offensive tackles this year. You don’t draft a guy top 5 just because he’s the “best one this year”, if it’s a weak class at the position.

There will be a draft next, hopefully. And the year after that.

And unless Albert just completly craps in his hat, I think he will do a good job going forward.

IMO a good LT will upgrade your entire line, especially when you have versatile linemen like Waters, Wade, and Albert, and as far as the #5 pick goes I don’t see a safety or linebacker returning as much value as a LT..

I’m not saying draft a LT and move Albert to LG, I’m saying draft a LT and use the talent somewhere.. Tackles like Michael Oher, who have played LT their entire football careers are good evidence that a LT can switch to RT.. Also Tackles tend to be dominant when kicked inside to the guard positions..

Michael Oher was drafted in the 20’s, a proper spot to look to draft a RT, G, or C. It’s nuts to draft one of those positions at #5, which would be what we are basically doing. Draft a player of need at #5(if we can’t trade down), and then concentrate on fixing the OL INTERIOR, which is what needs fixing, starting with round 2. We can get the best or 2nd best G and C, rather than start moving people around, experimenting, putting people in unfamiliar positions.

Draft Haden and move Carr to FS and move Page to SS nevermind the fact that Carr and Page haven’t played those positions in the NFL it will work and we will be so improved at THREE positions.

Btw this is how you LT folks actually sound when you suggest drafting Okung who won’t even fall to us at #5. So now the argument is do you draft the second best LT in a bad LT class at #5. Albert is fine at LT he will be great give him one more year. Everyone always says don’t judge a draft class for 3 years but people are ready to throw Albert under the bus because he lost 40 lbs and had to learn Zone Blocking. The last 6 games Albert was dominant and he can do that all year if you give Cassell a pocket to step into by drafting a Center. We also need Tackle depth and a possible eventual starter over O’Callaghan.

Albert certainly did improve over the last 6 weeks….but calling him dominate in downright criminal…link.