If we win through and take the cake, or get near enough, and have a late pick – we’ll draft for talent. If we go middle to top of the stinky season draft pile, I bet we go with need…and get talented guys at the positions we want…like we got Ben.

Still, you never know. In terms of weapons, the offense looks stacked, so maybe they do some trades, and get a lot of guys to compete with each other for the same positions.

Late round DE’s have been working so well for us recently.

Out biggest need on OL is a “LT capable” tackle. We could use a little more depth at guard, but Marvel’s getting older, Colon is a guard, and Starks probably won’t be back. Kemo and Colon would do it for me at guard, with Stapleton as a backup. Drafting another guard (or two) could make the position stronger, but it would mean Colon would be stuck at RT and the future would still be blurry. We need to come out of next year’s draft with a viable replacement for Smith that could play at RT for a few years.

DL is less specific; we just need to get an impact player there at NT or DE (or both). I was hoping Jackson would come out this year, because we might have been able to snag him, but he may go too high for us in 2009.

I doubt we could get 2 firsts and still have our second rounder. We should get a 3rd round comp pick for Faneca, though. We can’t trade comp picks, but we may be more likely to trade our normal 3rd rounder with a fourth for another second or our 1st and 3rd to get a shot at Oher, Jackson, or someone really good that we need. This year, we needed depth in the draft and got it. Next year, we’ll need a few impact players who can contribute early.