We were a winning team even with last year’s defense when we could run the ball consistently. Aside from Hillis, is there any back that you can count on? Additionally, it’s a 2 back league. Will Torain come back healthy? Pittman coming back?

I think we have more pressing needs, but if we don’t want Rey Rey, there isn’t a good DT at 12, and we need a RB?

NE got burned with Maroony and have done fine with scrub guys, I think it will be defense heavy all the way.

Not sold on Hillis!? That’s just crazy-talk!

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I’d be curious to hear more of the whys on this. What aren’t you sure of? Hillis is MONEY!

I think it depends on what you are looking for in a RB. If you want a guy with all the moves and break away speed who’s a threat to go the distance every time he touches the ball, I can see why you wouldn’t be sold on Hillis. But, if you want a guy who is always going to go forward, a guaranteed 3-4 yd pickup every time he touches the ball, putting you in 2nd and 3rd and short situations, securing the ball, moving the chains, pulling the safety down toward the LOS, then Hillis is your man.

It’s the classic Barry Sanders vs. TD argument. Although Barry made all the ESPN highlights, I’d take TD every time. Barry (similar to Adrian Peterson now) always had this stat line 3 yds., 2, -3, 4, 2, 1, 73, 2, 3, 1, -5, 3, -1, etc. You get the point.

Raji could be out NT if we go 3-4. I would like to see them go defense in the first two or three rounds. Maybe go for a running back in the middle rounds if we need one.

but it would take HUGE balls to pull that trigger.

for every player that catches the MHR faithful eye, this is just an introduction to what it is capable of. My next group is going to be the players already profiled by you and others, like Hill and Greene.

These pages will really pick up steam once the combine and proday numbers are in, and once the senior bowl gets played. The big key is it makes all the work done by the community less perishable by creating a place within a place where those references can always be, well, referred to! :)

are coming. Draft central for MHR will be unveiled soon…

would be to put up a fanpost similar to atthive’s Nosetackle post. Nothing flashy, but it generates good discussion on the prospects, (which can have the best info pulled out and added to the profile page), plus the links to good video or stats save time. You could do as many or as few prospects as you wanted ina post.

I will have profile pages prepared for all of the guys in your list soon, and anything that goes up in the fanposts leading up to the draft will get added to the pages. Draft central, which will be revealed soon will have quick links to all of this data and more, meaning that when something goes up about the draft in thefanposts, it won’t get lost or buried.

So just keep commenting and writing about the prospects you would like to see. While I have my own pieces on certain players planned, and Broncobear undoubtedly has more young players that have caught his imagination, in the end, all of our thoughts will be in the same place, and hold the same status, as all of yours: linked up in the profile pages, where they can combine to form a uniquely MHR opinion of the prospects and what they mean to Denver.

It is gonna take all of us to pull this off!

Brian Orakpo

There was a flap earlier in the year when his girlfriend put up a prank post on his fb site that he was declaring, but he fixed it and made rather assertive statements to the contrary. There’s obvious appeal in him, as he’d fill a huge need in a 3-4 (don’t pardon the pun). But if Denver decides they need him specifically, they’d best plan on setting up their draft position next year.

That Bradford from OK is staying put, too. You’re right, the QB’s will effect us.

Some of the recent RB declarations make a RB pick a higher possibility, but I think it’s going to take an unusual drop (like Mendenhall last year) before we’ll pick one in the 1st. That would also be true in the 2nd, too. There’s a chance of RB pick coming fairly early, say the 3rd if he’s the BPA, but I’ve focused on around the 4th and I think it still holds true.

I strongly agree with your reasoning, IamtheGreatest, but the argument for developing the running game could easily be used to justify taking an Offensive Lineman relatively early and taking a RB somewhat later. It’s not that I wouldn’t like a star RB, but the one-cut backs that fit into a ZB scheme aren’t the high picks that will be available at the beginning of the draft.

That last line of your post is now my new sig…thank you!

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