Kipers Mock

[titan_qb_3]

Can't see the whole thing but someone says he has the Chiefs taking Branden Albert. Can someone confirm this and if so he just lost all credability with me. It seems like a Carl Peterson move though

[bills_red]

yea that is true

[49ersfan]

I respect Mel for pioneering the tradition of draftniks, but he just lost a lot of cred right there. Albert is a borderline first round pick.

[Matt McGuire]

lol you're a guard hater.

Albert has probably more upside than any other lineman in this draft. I think that is a very innovative, logical pick ... I could see it happening.

[huskers3333]

I don't really know a lot about albert, and i know keiper is one of the best, but wouldn't 5 be too high for Any guard, just the position in general, and isnt albert supposed to be a guard, tackle tweener at 6-7?

[49ersfan]

Albert is a guard who some think can play tackle. Guards rarely go in the first round, and never in the top-20.

[huskers3333]

Didn't shawn Andrews go top 20 a couple years back, was he some phenominal prospect?

[49ersfan]

He was going, I think, to play tackle, although that didn't work out.

[huskers3333]

Yeah, i figured something was up, cause on that NFL Network Path to the draft commercial he said he hoped he was going top 6 and there is no way in hell a guard will ever go top 6, and you can hold me to that

[PuppyPuncher]

Albert is a guard who some think can play tackle. Guards rarely go in the first round, and never in the top-20.

Why do you keep ignoring the fact that 3 have gone in the past 3 years? WHY? WHY?

[49ersfan]

Because teams don't value guards much in the draft. I know that Ben Grubbs was a first round pick last year, and there are other guards who went in round one. It just doesn't happen much.

[candyman82]

I would mock him (****ty pun) but I had a guard going really high last year

[PuppyPuncher]

Because teams don't value guards much in the draft. I know that Ben Grubbs was a first round pick last year, and there are other guards who went in round one. It just doesn't happen much.

THREE YEARS IN A ROW.

[49ersfan]

I know, three years in a row. Someone needs to ask Matt that question on TDMMC (I will be in Philadelphia and can't listen live, unfortunately).

[huskers3333]

Because teams don't value guards much in the draft. I know that Ben Grubbs was a first round pick last year, and there are other guards who went in round one. It just doesn't happen much.

even though they don't, i think that guards and good centers need to get more attention, because the o-line is only as good as it's worst guy, and that's all it takes to screw up the play