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Draft Day Decision's Loom

 
As I wrote last month about the Kansas City Chief's draft dillema I am beginning to notice the same parody around the league.  Some teams such as the Jaguars, Cowboys and Chargers need little to improve their teams.  The decision they face is whether to take the best player, or draft in positions of need.  On the other hand, there are teams such as the Chiefs, Raiders, Vikings and Dolphins that need to fill many holes on their team and can not decide what the best position to draft first is. For example, the San Diego Chargers have a very complete, young team.  Their only key offseason loss was Michael Turner, which they hope Darren Sproles will be able to fill the backup role at running back this year.  Whichever way they choose to draft will most likely cause some sort of controversy in that position.  For example if San Diego were to draft a quarterback to assume a number two position behind Phillip Rivers, it could have the same effect Philadelphia saw by ... (link)

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