Starting to favor trading down with the Browns or someone similar and picking up another 2nd and drafting a LT there. Even if Landry is there. Might be more value at it and have him sit and learn from Whit. If we can have him good to go in 2020 for 10+ years that will be worth it. Then pick up best BPA with other 2nd.
I dislike this OT class very much. Even Miller, who I like but is a bit of a project in that you can't assume he'll be a day one starter at LT, is projecting now to go before our pick at 23. Finding value at the position is going to be exceptionally difficult in this draft.
If I were the GM the way I'd look at it is we have two drafts to rebuild this OL outside of whomever is signed long-term. That means LT as well as at least one OG position and maybe RT too. So here's what I'd do:
1. Get Havenstein locked up with a contract extension. He isn't an elite RT but he's solid and works his butt off to be better. This eliminates one side from consideration at the toughest to find positions on the OL. This won't be cheap but it also should not be cost prohibitive.
2. Draft at least one OG. I say "at least" because I'd plan on also "paying" one of the OGs on a longer contract. If you feel internally like that isn't doable for either signability or due to contracts coming up then you plan on bringing in another guy in the draft and hope you hit on him. These guys can be found midrounds, and it's also a position that has some good value in this draft. But it's also a position they can address midrounds next year's draft. So minimum this year is one draftee.
3. Plan on going after your LT next year's draft. Even if you have to move up a bit, you do what you gotta do. With this move they should be mostly sound overall. Center still might loom as an issue long-term, but like with OG it's a position you can address midrounds in most drafts and we have a coach I trust to move the interior types around and coach them up.
