McGruff":1afzavyj said:
Donk70":1afzavyj said:
We already have too many runt WRs. We need a big body that can box out a DB.
Same thing everyone said last year before we drafted Richardson.
This is quite true. Although the post draft comments by Pete indicated that they were legitimately looking for that kind of WR (Big physical wideout), but that there weren't guys that had what they were looking for.
I'm not sure if Seattle was already at that time hedging their Harvin bet at that time. Richardson seemed to be kind of redundant in terms of WR type. Seattle does tend to look for adding unique qualities to their roster. That's been alluded to by Pete repeatedly. I'm not sure we're looking for a shorter WR or not. Obviously teams like GB, who draft very well at WR don't ascribe to that. They just take talented players however they present and plug them in.
I'd say WR seems to be pretty wide open. Although with the relative difficulty of acquiring a quality big WR -- I tend to think we consider them as we do LT candidates on the OL. Specific physical qualities that merit overdrafting if available.
If we're not looking at big receivers, then there is just a huge collection of late 2nd to mid 4th WRs to choose from. They've all been cited in some form or another:
Dorsett
McBride
D. Smith
Agholor
Hardy
Bell
Crowder
Lockett
Greene
The list of bigs is far more limited:
DGB
Perriman
Coates
Funchess
It's possible we see a slew of bigs taken early (White, Cooper, Parker, Strong, Perriman, DGB). The short/medium WR group is likely to remain untouched. But if one of those four bigs presents and appeals to Seattle strongly -- I can easily see them going that route considering how difficult finding bigger WRs are year after year. Maybe targeting one of the shorter WRs that is leftover at the top of the 4th. Or simply going with a project later.
I certainly don't see them being done with getting big mismatch WRs just because we picked up Graham. If anything, I think they'd like to double down on that ability.
