Have they seen enough of him to be comfortable penciling him in as the starter next year? If he is the future do we bring in a solid veteran for a year for him to get some experience behind or do we just put him out there. If he's not the future would we be able to find someone in the draft that can instantly come in and start or do we go the FA route?
Personally I like the way the guy improved but I don't know how comfortable I am not having a contingency plan. Especially after seeing how much Brees was pressured this year.

Too early to tell. I suspect what will happen is a few tackles will be brought in to camp and he will compete with the rest of them for that position. If we draft a tackle in any round it will be to come in and compete for depth. Armstead's play at the end of the season doesn't warrant burning a first rounder.

While it does seem it is his to lose, he didn't beat out Brown in camp last year and that does speak to something...

Very true. I think with our 'quantity' that we will not draft a tackle, but might see a C. We have Jones, Harris, Nseke?, and maybe Brown. Not sure if any can move to G and lock down a backup spot, but we don't have room for all of them.

Yes

Why?

He's good.

Outstanding analysis.