Boutte

Do we promote from within or do we go shopping? I know there's the draft but if you wait till the draft to see what you get you risk missing out in FA. Plus I always believed that you fill holes with free agency and pick BPA in the draft.

Most people feel that Nicks is a bigger priority than Colston because he's probably the best guard in the league while Colston, while very good, isn't quite up to that standard. But if you look at the free agents available and what their asking price is likely to be that might be as accurate as it seems.

There are some very good free agent OLinemen available who aren't as good as Nicks but who would certainly be solid replacements at a much lower price. On the other hand the available talent at WR, while excellent, doesn't include anyone comparable to Colston that is likely to come at a lower price.

Hopefully we won't have to choose but I think losing Colston would be more difficult to recover from.

Of course there's the first option I mentioned which is to go with what we have. From that standpoint we're in much better shape at WR. We've got some pretty good talent waiting in the wings with Robert Meachem being the most obvious guy to take on Colston's duties. Moore could definitely see his numbers go up and Adrian Arrington and Joe Morgan have a lot of potential. Losing both Meachem and Colston would suck big time.

On the line the picture, as far as I can see, isn't nearly so rosy. Or am i missing something here? Are there any sleepers on the roster?