Would we have drafted Mendenhall?

by ciarannh on Apr 29, 2008 7:03 AM PDT

Holmgen and Ruskell have both announced since the draft that Lo-Jack was the man they wanted in the first, and the fact that we didn't look at running backs in the rest of the draft would suggest that Jones, Mo-Mo and T.J have their full confidence. However Mendenhall wasn't supposed to have dropped so far, and has a tremendous combination of size and speed. Do you think if the Steelers had passed on him we would have pulled the trigger?

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Mendenhall at 25?

Yes

25 votes

No

32 votes

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The Titans probably woulda taken him at 24.

But I think we would have.

against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.

by Christian on Apr 29, 2008 8:50 AM PDT reply actions

I don't think we would've at all. Instead

Russell would have probably traded down and given the pick to a team that really wanted him.

by redwolf75 on Apr 29, 2008 9:32 AM PDT reply actions

agreed

FREE JEREMY REED!!

by MFAN on Apr 29, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Probably could have landed a fortune

in draft picks in that scenario.

by BrianL on Apr 29, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah. That's why I actually HOPED he'd fall to us.

Perhaps we could’ve gotten a high 2 pick and used it on lojack in any case.

by redwolf75 on Apr 29, 2008 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh, this was another thing I heard Ruskell talk about in his interview

with Softy, he said that had Mendenhall been there they still would have taken LoJack. And ya, I don’t think he would have made it past the Titans anyways.

by Nate Dogg on Apr 29, 2008 12:12 PM PDT reply actions