Redskins Day One Draft Roundup

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Update 3 May: Curly R has reviewed the Redskins' thirteen post draft rookie free agent signings here.

Update 28 April: draft day two roundup is here.

Day one of the 2009 NFL Draft is over and the Redskins drafted one player filling a position of need, no shenanigans, no shiny objects distracting the owner.

Things went a little out of order as they always do in the NFL draft, at the fifth spot Cleveland sent their fifth overall pick to the New York Jets, the Jets sent their number seventeen plus a bunch of other picks and the Jets took Mark Sanchez out of the equation. Raise your hand if you were still nervous until the Redskins made their pick about a deal with the Jets materializing.

Andre Smith went next at six, he is the tackle that emerged at number thirteen from the earliest mock drafts and projections and varied little until today. It surprised me that Andre went before tackle Michael Oher, Andre is by some considered to be better equipped for the NFL than Michael but Andre may have some maturity and or character issues. At this point I am still thinking tackle for the best pick at number thirteen.

The Raiders taking receiver Darrius Hayward-Bey over Michael Crabtree and the Bills taking defensive end Aaron Maybin over Brian Orakpo allowed Brian to fall to thirteen and Washington pulled the trigger. I generally agree with Jason La Canfora, I too would probably have taken Michael Oher with this pick but then again as I mentioned in the previous post, at that thirteen spot you have the top rated defensive end and the fourth rated offensive tackle.

It was a risk to move with Brian what with the Redskins having no second round pick to get in and find a tackle like Phil Loadholt or Max Unger. I even see as I write this that the number five rated tackle Eben Britton fell into the second round.

So it was a good pick, here was the order of needs as I saw it:

1. Offensive tackle, higher need at right side
2. Linebacker, strong side
3. Run stuffing defensive end

And here is how the Redskins drafted on day one:

1. Pass rushing defensive end Brian Orakpo from the University of Texas (op. cit.).

Not even on my priority list but the guy was the best beef available and I am happy. For now everyone get some rest and I will see you in the morning, round three begins at 10am ET, the Redskins have the sixteenth pick, I expect it to come in around 11am.


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