[CrazedZooChimp]

My beef is with the fact no team had the "balls" to say "you know what, we could get a TE later, but let's differentiate and take the best TE now and give us the best chance of having a unique competitive edge."  That, and the fact Dustin Keller was a first round pick for the N.Y. Jets a few years ago and Fleener seems to be a better prospect; runs faster, is a better blocker, has a higher vertical, and importantly, is 4 inches taller.

It would be awfully dumb for a team that thinks they can get him later on to use a first round draft pick for him.  That's called wasting picks.

Clearly teams were looking to fill other needs than receiving (and offensive line for that matter).  Only 4 WRs were taken in the first round, no TE was taken above him.  Only two OTs were taken in the first round, and Martin is probably #4 or so.  Clearly most people making mock-drafts misjudged what positions teams were concerned with (I get the impression that more teams took defense than was expected).  I don't think there's anything to be annoyed by here, except that it would have been fun to have 4 guys taken in round one.  Anyways, now we can watch Luck throw to Fleener for however many more years.

[CrazedZooChimp]

My beef is with the fact no team had the "balls" to say "you know what, we could get a TE later, but let's differentiate and take the best TE now and give us the best chance of having a unique competitive edge."  That, and the fact Dustin Keller was a first round pick for the N.Y. Jets a few years ago and Fleener seems to be a better prospect; runs faster, is a better blocker, has a higher vertical, and importantly, is 4 inches taller.

It would be awfully dumb for a team that thinks they can get him later on to use a first round draft pick for him.  That's called wasting picks.

Clearly teams were looking to fill other needs than receiving (and offensive line for that matter).  Only 4 WRs were taken in the first round, no TE was taken above him.  Only two OTs were taken in the first round, and Martin is probably #4 or so.  Clearly most people making mock-drafts misjudged what positions teams were concerned with (I get the impression that more teams took defense than was expected).  I don't think there's anything to be annoyed by here, except that it would have been fun to have 4 guys taken in round one.  Anyways, now we can watch Luck throw to Fleener for however many more years.