MHR Community Mock Draft Pick #20

by Jeremy Bolander on Apr 4, 2009 11:44 PM MDT in 2009 Off-Season Comment 9 comments

With the #20 pick in the 2009 MHR Community Mock Draft, the Detroit Lions (via Dallas Cowboys) select....

OT, ANDRE SMITH, ALABAMA

Detroit Lions (via Dallas Cowboys)

Round 1, Pick #20 overall

GM BDAWKisaBRONC

Details of the pick after the jump...

Needs to put the past behind him.

From GM BDAWKisaBRONC: After the acquisition of Julian Peterson and the pick of Aaron Curry to go along with Ernie Sims, I think it is time to address a 27th ranked offense(in points). We have young talent at our defensive line with Avrill and White rushing the quarterback and Grady Jackson stops the run. Smith is a huge, at 6'4'' 330 we are desperate for a franchise left tackle. After the selection of Godser Cherilus last year, we are hoping these two talents can be our bookend tackles. We have the running back and Calvin, however, we feel a need to provide a good offensive line to a qb and running back or they're talent will be useless. We saw what happened to David Carr, Alex Smith, and J.P Losman without protection upfront. Smith(Andre) is a top ten talent, we need a tackle, and we will not pass on this talent; he is currently the highest on my board as well.

In regard to his "bad pass protection footwork", we are looking to run the football a lot next year, we ran the ball very effectively in Tennesse, we look to add a power back this draft and need big guys up front to pave the way. Andre has played in NFL's best compititon, and is a winner, and will be a great addition to this team.

Commish's Thoughts: Well that worked out pretty nicely for Detroit I think. After passing up the top offensive tackle, and taking their chances on the top Defensive player, The Lions must have been hoping for one of the good OTs or QBs to slip to them. With Freeman going just one pick in front of them, they are freed up to make the simple, savvy choice. Andre Smith won't get red carpet treatment, but he shouldn't need it either, and hopefully he will be rocksolid for them in their efforts to rebuild.

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Philadelphia Eagles are up next. The eagles have two shots in the first round, just like Detroit did, so hopefully they get the first one right and keep the momentum going.

The deadline for this pick is MIDNIGHT MST, April 5th (tomorrow night).. As long as I receive the pick by that time it will be valid. To send me the pick, just email me at the address shown in my profile.

Philadelphia Eagles

Round 1, Pick #21 Overall

GM ejruiz

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Round One

Detroit Lions: McDah OLB Aaron Curry, Wake Forest
St.Louis Rams: 53guys OT Jason Smith, Baylor
Kansas City Chiefs: Papisan DE/OLB Brian Orakpo, Texas
Seattle Seahawks: Denver_Native OT, Eugene Monroe, Virginia
Cleveland Browns: Zappa WR, Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech
Cincinnati Bengals: DukeTC OT, Michael Oher, Ole Miss
Oakland Raiders: V. Money DT/NT, BJ Raji, Boston College
Jacksonville Jaguars: gunnermc QB, Matt Stafford, Georgia
Green Bay Packers: Broncosorbust OLB, Clay Matthews, USC
San Francisco 49ers: Elway's Ghost DE/OLB, Everette Brown, Florida St.
Buffalo Bills: Rep56 TE, Brandon Pettigrew, Oklahoma St.
Denver Broncos: broncofan91 OLB, Brian Cushing, USC
Washington Redskins: Chawkins06 DE Aaron Maybin, Penn St.
New Orleans Saints: gnarlybroncodude DB, Malcolm Jenkins, Ohio St.
Houston Texans: PredominantlyOrange WR, Jeremy Maclin, Missouri
San Diego Chargers: Sadaraine ILB, Rey Maualuga, USC
New York Jets: danelama QB, Mark Sanchez, USC
Denver Broncos (from Chicago): Combat Chuk RB, Knowshon Moreno, Georgia
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: OrangeCrush4082 QB, Josh Freeman, Kansas St.
(Dallas Cowboys) Lions: BDAWKisaBRONC OT, Andre Smith, Alabama
Philadelphia Eagles: ejruiz ON THE CLOCK
Minnesota Vikings: War Eagle Aubie ON DECK
New England Patriots bronco-Maine-iac
Atlanta Falcons: Stovie47
Miami Dolphins: adamriggs
Baltimore Ravens mla2131
Indianapolis Colts: chikndnnr
(Carolina Panthers) Eagles: bcfunk
New York Giants: Russ
Tennessee Titans: Broncoman
Arizona Cardinals: Calibroncoboy
Pittsburgh Steelers: PABroncofan

Poll

Aaron Curry followed by Andre Smith, how do you rate the Lions first round?

Both moves were good.

157 votes

Good call on Curry, but not Smith.

26 votes

Messed up on Curry, but Smith was a good pickup.

24 votes

Neither pick was the best choice.

13 votes

220 votes | Poll has closed

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My vote was for

“messed up on Curry, but Smith was a good pick-up”.

This comes down to personal choice of course… I’m a huge believer in building from the lines out (as I mentioned in a post here, so I would’ve gone with Monroe/Jason Smith #1. That said, if they go with Curry and Smith falls to them, I think it’s a no brainer.

I think there are questions about Smith playing LT, which would be a bit worrisome, because they added a RT in Cherilus last year. But if they don’t have doubts about it, I’m sure the Lions would love to have a first round like this.

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by UtesFan89 on Apr 4, 2009 11:53 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice pick

and you didn’t even use up your allotted time! That’s a GM on his game! Nice job, BDawk!

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by broncosmontana on Apr 5, 2009 12:05 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I think I may of went with the OT out of AZ, but hard to pass on a solid starter like

Smith, but his post season has been a disaster and you have to wonder once he gets his money if he will be that motivated, he has the biggest boom/bust potential out there.

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by Broncoman on Apr 5, 2009 12:49 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

LT or RT?

Regardless of where he played at Alabama, Smith projects better as a RT.

This pick has “boom or bust” written all over it. Andre is immensely talented but equally unmotivated. I don’t know that a team with as many holes as Detroit should be using 1st round picks on guys like that; but then again, those teams are in a bad position for a reason.

by Hobnail_Boot on Apr 5, 2009 2:08 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Pick Submitted.

I have completed my duties as Eagles “co-GM in charge of pick #21” and look forward to what you all have to say about my decision. Cheers and go Broncos!

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by ejruiz on Apr 5, 2009 2:26 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs