re: Most mocks now have Rams picking Austin @16. Should help trade back.

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pick up three average players instead of targeting an impact player in the top half of the 1st round. Because nobody good comes out of the 15th pick.

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considering that the general thought amongst "experts" in the national realm is that this draft is loaded with no great players, your stance is wrong. if there were any "impact players" at the 15 spot, then you would be accurate; however, this is not the case. I saw Mayok say a couple weeks back that you can take all 32 "top" players this year, shuffle them up and you'd have some teams draft board. Here is this from Peter King's column yesterday LINK

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As the smoke begins to clear for the 2013 draft, this is obvious: No one loves the top of it. No one. When you talk to league people, you hear over and over about how this is a middle-class draft, with an egalitarian class from the teens until the middle of the second round, and no real can't-miss stars at the top.

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This is not his opinion; it is his reporting of what he is being told. So before you start rolling your eyes at peoples' desire to trade back, you may want to stop and look at your opinion as not being the one that is dominated by the people in the know. Also, just stop using the term "impact player" at 15, because it has become quite clear that there is no true impact player in this draft.