I would look to draft for needs when we have less needs.All good at using pick 23 for BEsr player but when do we pick players for needs.
Next year possible two top ten picks and what happens if two Mids are best player
This years rookie draft we need to take two talls
If we are being honest, where do we not have a need?
I'm not talking about "we don't need mids because Phillips will be a star". I think that he will be a star but I don't know.
We need more quality mids. We need a KPF. We need small and medium forwards and backs. We need another KPD developing. We need a young ruckman to replace Goldy.
If we are looking to be in the 8 in 2-3 years then our list looks like this:
FB : ??? - McKay - ???
HB : McDonald - Logue - ???
C : ??? - LDU - ???
HF : ??? - ??? - ???
FF : Zurhaar - Larkey - ???
Foll : ??? - ??? - Simpkin
(and I might be generous with Lmac and Zurhaar)
I think/hope that a lot of these spots are close to being claimed. But they haven't been, yet.
And this is assuming that we retain everyone. When I made this point pre-trade week people said that we have JHF locked into a mid spot.