*Live Draft Reaction - Rounds 1 and 2

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4. - Nero Alexander, DE

Hate this pick, absolutely hate it. Not because of the player, I believe Nero Alexander is one of the two most talented players in this draft, but I dislike spending this high on the position. They really need a guy who can fill in for Dick Wizardry in Seaosn 16 and leaving Morgan Marshall on the board is bad. Hope they can fill the RB need somewhere else. Alexander is a great player nonetheless.

I got some story behind this if you'd like to hear it:

So we're sitting there in the war room with Marshall and Alexander being the top guys on our board at this spot, but 100% leaning Marshall for the exact reason you described, we needed a RB. At the same time we're working Sweetwater in FA about coming to us. Basically after a decent convo we hit him with this: "Here's the situation: We're about to draft now-ish and we're this close to picking a RB. So just tell me right now, your gut instinct, you wanna be here or no?" He balked a little at us putting him on the spot that quick without any good foreplay, but quickly agreed and we made the choice to draft Alexander.

We honestly thought we had lost Marshall at that point and that he was gonna get snagged by Colorado or Chicago or something. We had accepted the fact we were either just gonna go singleback with Sweetwater or try to score another back in the later rounds and maybe snag Walt Green in round 2. Pretty soon we see Marshall dropping and we're wondering if we have a chance to trade back up into round 1 in order to take him. We had sent out a few offers seeing if we could find a way to do it without paying too much. In our mind we were just getting another round 1 pick. Well, nobody took the trade bait so we sat there and watched, and watched, and watched, wondering if somehow magically one of the top 3 guys on our board was gonna land in our lap at 14. And the rest is history.