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8. Bills Winston Justice T USC
The team needs help on both lines of scrimmage and both tackle spots. Coming off a great workout, Justice offers tremendous upside and can be used on either the left or right side.
Other possibilities: Both top-rated defensive tackles are strong considerations here as well.
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8. Bills Winston Justice T USC The team needs help on both lines of scrimmage and both tackle spots. Coming off a great workout, Justice offers tremendous upside and can be used on either the left or right side.
Other possibilities: Both top-rated defensive tackles are strong considerations here as well.
After his Pro Day, it is not a question of whether Justice has Top 10 physical ability. He does. And, in that sense, he really wouldn't be a reach. But, that begs the question of whether he would be the right pick....
Regardless of his physical talent, one has to wonder if and how quickly Justice could make the transition from the right side to the left. After seeing what happened with Mike Williams and given the Bills' stated desire to keep Peters on the right side, at least for now, this has to be a concern for the Bills, especially since his coach at USC, P. Carroll--who knows a thing or two about what it would take to play in the NFL, has expressed some reservations about how quickly Justice would be able to make the move from the right side to the left in the NFL (links to his comments have been posted in previous NZ threads about Justice).
The other question that the Bills have to ask is whether taking Justice over one of the other players that will be available to them will adversely impact their draft later on or not. For example: if the Bills take Justice, an OT, with their first pick, they would have to fill their other primary needs: DT, S, OG and WR; with their later picks. They would have to evaluate the depth of the draft at those positions to determine whether the combination of players that they can get later in the draft at those positions should they go with Justice would have as much potential as the combination of players that they could get if they fill another position with their first pick instead (for example, since LT is a deeper position in this draft, would they be better off going OT/DT/S with their first 3 picks or DT/OT/S or, if Huff is still on the board, S/OT/DT, etc.). Unless they really love Justice and are absolutely convinced that he will be a better much better player than the other guys who are available at # 8, this is an evaluation that they must make--they have to anticipate how the pick will impact their ability to address those other positions of need. Given the choice of three or more Top 10 ranked players, the fact that Justice would not be a reach at # 8 does mean much because they could take any one of those 3 or more players and none of them would be a reach.
Now, I'm not saying that the Bills should or should not take Justice. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. Obviously, he has Top 10 physical talent and won't be a reach if they do decide to select him. But, that doesn't mean that he will be any better a choice than any one of the other Top 10 players that the Bills will be able to choose from when they are on the board. Nor does it that the Bills will see him as being the right player for them to use that pick on, given the other positions that they are going to have to address in this draft.
Justice is, as he was before this, still one of several possible players--none of them being a reach--that the Bills could use their # 8 pick on in this draft, depending on who does or does not get selected before they are on the board. And, a lot is going to depend on who does get selected with the seven picks that get made before the Bills get to make their selection.
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I don't believe he's a reach. He still is a huge concern because he played RT to protect the blindside of a left handed QB, much like Mike Williams did at Texas.
So you're Drafting a guy in the top 10 with charater issues, (Marv's kind of guy ) paying him huge $$. Then you ask him to switch positions.
Hmmm...
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