JP, the thing is that we have a stocked roster and all the cut draft picks just end up on another teams roster. Payton has a vision! His team is loaded and he's looking for a few more dominant draft picks to complete the roster. I'm fine with trading picks to get the missing parts of the puzzle. Davenport is exciting as hell to watch and he is an impact player when he is on the field.

Remember ya'll. He didn't have a substantial injury history before coming here. I thought and still think it was a solid gamble. I've always said that Davenport will make us forget the cost but injuries might have to make me rethink that position. I hope he gets his unrelated injuries in check this year.

Rugs, look back through my posts, I believe I've made a strong case; this roster would've been even more talented, and we'd had cap space to boot...

Consider this, please - look at the previous post, could you imagine if we'd had Sam Hubbard opposite Cam Jordan the last two playoff tournaments while Davenport was out? Consider that.

And I'll repeat what I said about injury history; there's some great talent in the non-Major Conferences...

But when you have players (SEC, ACC, Big10) who play 10+ games vs other future pro talent, you can check for durability as well as talent...

Can you guarantee that Hubbard wouldn't have been injured, as well? He could have been in the same place at the same time as Davenport and suffered the same, or worse, injury. You never know in the NFL if or when an injury might occur. Christian McCaffrey is going to be out for several weeks. Saquon Barkley is out for the season. Neither had a history of injuries and both played bigtime college ball. Courtland Sutton out for the season. Drew Lock out for several games. Nick Bosa out for the year. Jimmy Garoppolo with a high ankle sprain. Parris Campbell, Cam Akers, Breshad Perriman, Byron Jones, Sterling Shepard, Soloman Thomas, Malik Hooker, George Kittle, Michael Thomas ... all have suffered injuries thus far. It is part of the game.

Edit: Add Anthony Barr to that list with a torn pectoral. Tavon Young and Bruce Irvin with torn ACL's. 49er's Raheem Mostert and Tevin Coleman both with knee injuries.

Edit Deux: Add Brandon Scherff with a sprained MCL. Out 3-5 weeks.

Read my post(s); at least there's a history durability, playing ProTalent each week with Hubbard, who faced a more physical schedule than Davenport had in the one year he flashed...

And Hubbard didn't cost two first rounders and a fifth; if you take Hubbard with a third, you still have at least two more picks where you can expand your depth at that position for injuries...