I am ok with the pickups of Ward and Bynum, but I am not really ready to say that they are great pickups. They certainly fill positions of need.
Ward I do think will immediately be our best outside corner, but he is already 29. Bynum looks similar to Blackmon, but I do profess not to know a huge amount about him, so happy to be proven wrong.
I am also meh about resigning Dulin, at 4m a year I want a good rotational offensive lineman, not a special teamer, who is 5/6th on the depth chart at receiver. He has proven to be a good special teamer, but with the new kickoff rules, i don't believe that this phase of the game is quite as important now. And it is not as if we were a great special teams unit last year.
If we can swing a trade for Raiders TE Mayer for a 5th rounder that fills that position. I don't want to take a TE in the later rounds, as that's exactly what the rest of our TE roster already is. Ogletree is a good inline blocker, Mallory is capable as a route runner, but a liability blocking, and then you have the weirdness that is Jelani Woods, is he able to develop into what he looked like he could become in his rookie season?
The rest of the roster doesn't have any glaring needs. Upgrades could be had of course, at LB, the tackle spot, the third DT and a backup RB and DE depth. But it allows the option of going BPA in the draft.
I am comfortable enough with our starters
Richardson
Taylor
Pittman
Pierce
Downs
Mayer
Raihman
Nelson
Bortolini
Goncalves
Smith
Ebukam
Stewart
Buckner
Paye
Franklin
Carlies
Ward
Jones
Moore
Cross
Bynum
But I would say we only have a few players beyond that, that I am truly comfortable with going forward, Dulin, Ogletree, Lewis, Latu, Adebawore, Brents, Womack.
So that's the 22 starters, 3 special teamers, and 7 others, a total of 32 players. The other 22 players all have yet to justify that they really belong in the NFL on a consistent basis. Even then the 7 others have hardly proven anyhing yet other than Lewis, Latu and probably Brents. There is a lot of work to do to get this roster depth up to standards, to be able to cover any sort of injuries to the starters.
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