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Ray Rice in the 2nd Round

Not too sure what the thought was behind this pick, or the entire second round philosophy. While Joe Flacco probably wouldn't have made it to the Ravens at pick #38, they certainly could have came away from the first day with CB Mike Jenkins with the 18th pick and either one of Chad Henne or Brian Brohm with the 38th pick. Even if they targeted Flacco from the beginning, they still could have taken Indiana CB Tracy Porter in the second round but for whatever reason, decided to trade down again and garner more second day picks.

This draft will end up being judged on what the Ravens do on Sunday, to determine if what they did on Saturday was successful. Sure, Ray Rice will be a great complement to Willis McGahee, but they needed a decent corner much more than a backup running back. There are still a couple other CB on the board and the Ravens have something like nine picks in the final four rounds, so we'll have to wait and see before we judge their draft just now.

More to come tomorrow morning, starting at 10am.

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Ray Rice is going to be a really good back up for the Ravens and probably will provide good production if he has to replace Willis because of injury. They Ravens didn't need to get a RB that early though. Justin King and Charles Godfrey were still on the board. The Ravens couldn't cover their own shadow, but I guess the Ravens saw it differently. IDK.

by E ROC on Apr 27, 2008 1:06 PM EDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

While Rice is a nice pick,...

...it just didn't make sense for us, as we could have gotten a serviceable backup to McGahee later in the draft and certainly could have loaded up on secondary help. We should have traded up in round two for Brandon Flowers, but certainly shouldn't have passed on either of Justin King or Charles Godfrey while they were available, much less Tracy Porter!

Rexx

by Rexx on Apr 27, 2008 2:57 PM EDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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