hagan714

Meachum might be Hendersons replacement in 2008 when he becomes a FA. Henderson needs to have a good off season to regain Shawn's faith in him. As if he ever had it. I am sure Shawn sees what he can be, but does Henderson get it? Henderson maybe our trade bait before the season starts. Little hard though when the draft was so deep at WR this year.

The 2 CB are a projects to say the least. God only knows what we have there. One of them, should be able to step up and take over the nickle in 2008. As for the dime? Time will only tell. Craft FA in 2009. Thomas is a FA in 2008. One will be gone for sure. At the least Jones should develope into a good special teams player. He might develope into a nice ball hawking Safety. He has the skill sets. Just such a big leap to the NFL for both of them.

Alleman at the least will develope into a very good back up at the Guard position. Lets hope he can start. Nesbit is not getting any younger and he is a FA in 2008. Who knows they may make a backup center out of him too. That would be perfect. Thats the one area of the line we did not address. A back up Center. Goodwin is a FA in 2008. We got really lucky last year faine did not get hurt. He does have a history.

Bushrod is an interesting prospect who, we hope, can be a quality backup at Left Tackle for Brown. Maybe when Jon is a FA in 2009 he or Stief will be will be able to step in and become the starter. At least we can hope he can be a quality back up. OT/OG hybrid.

Fabulous Marvin Mitchell what can be said here? Time will tell. Solid special Teams guy running up the middle of the field? Well he gets my vote as the first player to go on IR our gets cut with and injury settlement.

Antonio Pittman is a north south runner that can live inbetween the tackles and he can bounce outside. Just one fumble in the past two years despite 250-plus touches in each of those years. His hands are good but has never been used that way in at OU. He is considered small? 5-11 and 200+ pounds is small? I understand the pick but......when you have another top notch project on the board like Zak DeOssie for example, whats one more? If we had stayed put Mansfield Wrotto would have fallen into our laps and he is a better project than Bushrod. This is the player I bet the Saints wanted and Seattle swooped in and got him. Bushrod was what we got. Even then there were..... and you still have that addition 5th round. I know hind sight.

Conculsion is we drafted 4 projects for the DB and OL. I have to say the quality of the projects are top notch. The two big school players. Meachum I can accept the easiest. Pittman is a little hard But if Pittman can show he is dependable in catching the ball. We may have pulled of one off the best moves in the draft. He may have put the RB rotation at the top in the NFL.

Well once again the saints have left us scratching our heads the day after draft. Lets hope they pull this one off like like last year. Just have to:
KEEP THE FAITH.

"We may have lost the game, but you'll be hurting tomorrow." Doug Atkins