OT: Dinners, meetings, rumors leading up to the draft

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I really like the Rams approach of not doing top 30 visits or combine interviews with the GM/headcoach. They rely on in season interviews with scouts instead and they're the best drafters in the league.

These guys are so over prepared for the interviews and it seems easy to bias yourself towards a prospect with inferior tape if you love how the talk went. Not to mention you're more biased towards the guys you talked with most recently. I think we got hit with that last year. A bunch of our draft picks were overdrafted (and underproduced) and they were commenting on how well they got along with Gannon in interviews.
 
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i get the trade up part, i dont know what "developmental position" means -- usually that means QB, but wouldnt that kick off something

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i get the trade up part, i dont know what "developmental position" means -- usually that means QB, but wouldnt that kick off something

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I'm thinking it means we may trade back into the first round from 48 and pick a guy who wasn't quite worthy of 16 but we think his talent can be developed into something big..so we want the fifth year option on him.

Right now a "developmental " OT or DT isn't out of the question for this team. Developmental does not mean they kid isn't ready to play. Just that he isn't ready to play to his capabilities.
If I had to guess, I would say OT. There should be a couple guys in the 26 to 35 range who have the right traits...and we have OT pretty much locked down this season. Wouldn't hurt to get the 5th year on a guy you will mostly redshirt his rookie season.
 

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