IMO there are 5 targets at #10 that the Lions will take: - Shawne
Merriman (the best speed rusher with full time DE size without question
marks on size or durability),
- Derrick Johnson (the best overall
defensive player in this draft),
- Antrel Rolle (the 2nd best overall defensive player in
this draft), and
- Carlos Rogers (the best pure CB in this draft),
- David Pollack (the most productive DE in college in this draft).
- If one of
them is not there, it means a WR or QB probably fell and just became trade
bait. (That is, unless Mike Williams falls to them. Tom Kowalski (Mlive) says they may be thinking of him as a future TE. HA!)
Unless a trade to the end of the round happens, an OT doesn't become
a real possibility because Pat Morris is the kind of OL coach who takes mid
- rounders and polishes them into diamonds. I think the RBs may slide in this draft, but Ronnie Brown should
still go top 10.