Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by Giedi:
Landry does fit the bill. He really is what this defense needs. Been looking a bit at Chubb and Davenport, and I think Chubb is an overkill at DE. Love to have him, but most likely won't be there. But Chubb kind of duplicates what Solomon and Buckner do in a run defense sense. As folks have stated, our base defense is good. It's the pass rush that's a concern. Davenport is all bull rush with some hand fighting and edge rushing - like you said - very raw, and probably will take a year or two to really get up to speed.
I wish Landry was 10 pounds heavier and keeps his speed and agility, but then I suspect he'd be going before Chubb. With folks saying this is one of the weaker pass rush draft classes, I'm even contemplating trading down the #9 pick, get extra picks - get two raw edge rushers in the later rounds to develop, and go for a top elite edge rusher next year with the extra picks you get this year. I don't like that option, but if Chubb and Landry are gone, I'm thinking Davenport won't be any better than a 2nd round more polished edge rusher in my opinion.
I mean if Chubb is there at 9 run up and hand in the cardcan't see SF moving up for him unless we overpay and they need their picks.
If we can move down and get Landry even better, I'm fine taking him at 9 end of the day. If Landry is gone some how, say hello to raquon smith lol.
If that's the strength of the draft then Raquon it is, but I don't know anything about him, other than possibly that he's Reuben 2.0 from an athletic standpoint. Then we can possibly take an edge rusher later in the draft. The other option is to over pay, as you say, and trade up for Landry/Chubb if there's going to be a run on edge rushers. It might be worth it to overpay since, I'm betting we're making the playoffs next year and we're going to draft late, say in the 20's or later. This might be the only time in the next 2 - 5 years we'll be drafting this high again. Might as well make it count because next year, if I'm right, our first round pick will be equivalent to a high second round pick.
