re: We could have had Jarvis Landry in the 2nd.

I like the way you used statistics and analyzed their play to come up with such a brilliant conclusion

I still stick to my "We should have gotten Jordan Matthews". I was very happy we got Cooks, but I still wanted Matthews more just because of his college production, size, speed, and everything about him screamed #1 WR potential. Any other year, he would have been easily 1st round grade. Back to back years of 1300+ yards receiving with no one else on that Vandy team.

Currently, their production is about the same ~550 yards through 10 games.

The factor I'm considering is without Colston, we don't really have a wide receiver with size. Stills is 6'0 and Graham isn't a traditional receiver, but more of a mismatch piece against LBs/Safeties. I understand that we always had a speedy 'x' factor player (Bush, Sproles, and now Cooks), but we needed someone that had some size too. Matthews was that piece to me. Especially considering there were a handful of those "speedy" guys in the later rounds (Archer, Brown, DAT, etc) we could have double dipped.

Like Cooks a lot, I think he's the best hands on the team. That said he's more of a 3rd rounder not a 1st, let alone a 1st and a 3rd. Could have had landry and Benjamin both. How bout john brown or moncrief, and d.Thomas woulda been a nice replacement for sproles. And Matthews looks like he could be a beast. All playmakers. All in all l think this years draft was one of the worst we've had.

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I still stick to my "We should have gotten Jordan Matthews". I was very happy we got Cooks, but I still wanted Matthews more just because of his college production, size, speed, and everything about him screamed #1 WR potential.

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It would have been nice to stay put where the team was & taken Kelvin Benjamin. With the 2nd round pick that was given up to move to get Cooks, maybe we get a shot at at Matthews or Landry. Potentially a golden opportunity to double dip at receiver was missed in a receiver heavy draft. We definitely could have used more then one upgrade at that position. Anyone know where our pick would have fallen at in terms of where Matthews & Landry were chosen?

I gotcha. I thought it was a 2nd.

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Cards took John Brown with that pick though and he's played well. Also Trai Turner went with the next pick and it'd be nice to have him in a "redshirt" season right now.

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Would have been nice to have either one of them right now.