The Washington Redskins already receive a B for having eight draft picks going into this weekends lackluster NFL draft. But they bolstered the offense for what is going to be a crazy year in 2008 - 2009 in the NFC East. With Pacman coming to Dallas and the way New York’s secondary came together at the end of last year, the Skins are going to have expand their arsenal. They did just that by adding college football’s top tight end (Fred Davis/USC) and two top receivers (Malcolm Kelly/Oklahoma and Devin Thomas/Mich. St.). And they did it without spending first round money.
They didn’t really address their needs on either line, but have some solid lineman barring any injuries (my fingers, toes and eyes crossed). My favorite pick of the day, though, was that the Skins also drafted the nation’s best punter in 2007 (Durant Brooks/Georgia Tech) and did so in the sixth round, which is typical for punters but with all of the field position wars in 2007 I’m surprised he didn’t go early. The NFC East is the toughest division in the NFL’s history and isn’t any different these days, so a coffin corner punter would be great, and Brooks is just that.
It’ll be interesting how both of our defensive back picks pan out in our beleaguered secondary.
Who do you think had the best draft? Who do you think had the worst? Which division do you think is the toughest in the NFL?
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DCJonesy // April 28, 2008 at 5:50 pm
hard to say really who had the best/worst drafts this early, but i’ll be reading all the experts’ draft grades in the next few days. as a skins fan, i’m biased but the toughest division has to be the NFC East. no team worse than 8-8 last year, 3 out of 4 made the playoffs, Super Bowl champs and every team (maybe except new york) has only gotten stronger.
but yeah getting the punter definitely surprised me. maybe the biggest surprise for me though was taking Colt Brennan, but it’s kind of a pleasant surprise
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