23. Minnesota runs to the podium to take Florida DT
Shariff Floyd, who I'm the first to admit should have been selected well before now. Hell, there are plenty of mock drafts sending Floyd to Oakland at #3. But the way I'm prioritizing players, one or another of the first-round DTs is going to fall to Minnesota, just probably not Floyd.
24. Indianapolis' lines showed need for a lot of work in their playoff loss at Baltimore. They added Gosder Cherilus as a free agent to try to reduce the beating Andrew Luck's taking early in his career, but I'm not terribly sold on their pass rush yet and think Florida State DE
Bjoern Werner would be a heck of an addition.
PFW has him ranked the #1 DE, ahead of Ansah. The production is definitely there - 20 sacks his last two seasons.
25. Minnesota returns to the podium to take Cal WR
Keenan Allen, a big receiver who can win one-on-one battles, a polished receiver who can be a nice match to Greg Jennings.
26. Green Bay's playoff loss in San Francisco exposed offensive line problems they had all season. Chris Long's brother
Kyle, from Oregon, would be a nice addition for them. Excellent athlete they can use at either guard or tackle. I don't think Kyle's limited to just being a guard; every time I've seen him he's shown the footwork and blocking skill in space of a quality tackle.
27. If
Houston is going to catch up with the Patriots of the world, they'd better get a quality receiving option opposite Andre Johnson.
Justin Hunter, a huge, explosive, fleet WR from Tennessee, gets the call here, and yes, that's two raw Volunteer wideouts I have going in the first round. Clyde Duncan must be going next.
28. Denver showed significant secondary problems getting knocked out of the playoffs. Champ Bailey looked so bad trying to cover Torrey Smith that I think he should be kicked to safety. That way they won't be starting safeties even worse than Craig Dahl while Bailey can help tutor first-round pick
Desmond Trufant (Washington) on the finer points of corner play. Datone Jones wouldn't look bad here either, to try to replace Elvis Dumervil.
29. New England needed to get younger at WR, and did by signing Danny Amendola after losing Wes Welker to Denver. They also need to replace the released Brandon Lloyd, but Bill Belichick is actually so terrible at drafting WRs, he might as well not try. Datone Jones would also look good here, but we'll send the Patriots Houston CB
D.J. Hayden, who has been flying back up the charts after being cleared as having recovered from a near-fatal blood vessel tear. The Patriots got burned deep way too often, even by the Rams, not to look for additional help to Aqib Talib in the secondary.
30. Needing to improve a pass rush that didn't get anything done for them in the playoffs,
Atlanta replaced John Abraham with Osi Umenyiora, but I doubt their work up front is done, so we'll finally give UCLA's
Datone Jones a home. He can provide rush from anywhere on the line, and during Senior Bowl week, he held his own against Eric Fisher at times.
31. San Francisco continues to load up, with Stanford TE
Zach Ertz to replace Delanie Walker and create another nasty tight end tandem for defenses to have to cover along with Vernon Davis.
32. A last-second tweak for
Baltimore, with apologies. I originally gave them a center from Wisconsin when they actually have one already, Peter Konz, to step over into Matt Birk's shoes. Instead of o-line, let's work on rebuilding a secondary that got gobsmacked in free agency and take safety
Jonathan Cyprien of Florida International, who really should be off the board by now. ILB also obviously a major need but I have trouble for the Ravens there with Ogletree and Te'o gone.
And that will do it for the RamView 2013 Accu-Draft. I'll throw up the condensed version in a minute, which is where I'll probably find I drafted D.J. Fluker twice, or forgot to draft Luke Joeckel or a QB in the first round or something. I'll probably have more draft nonsense here through the week, including a (just) Rams 7-round mockup, but if I don't get that far, enjoy the draft Thursday thru Saturday this week. One of my favorite times of the year.
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