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Anyone who can play LT at a decent level in college gets overdrafted. Some places had DB listed as a second rounderer, but he was hard to evaluate because his team was so bad. Plus he is coming out a year early. Plus he likely has had poor coaching (remember, the entire team sucked). Solid pick for the seond day, will compete.

If protecting ARod's blind side is a priority, then Bulaga should be at LT - let Barclay, Newhouse and DB compete for RT and backup slots. We carry four tackles and these are likely to be them, barring injuries. Only bad thing is that 3 of 4 seem like LTs, which isn't all that bad a problem to have. Barclay is the only one who has no future at LT.

One of the fatal flaws in last year's team was the lack of depth on the OL. When Saturday had problems, it ended up eating up our only experienced backup. We were one injury away from starting UDFAs like Barclay. Meant that Sitton and Lang had little choice but to play though injuries. DB adds that depth and with Bulaga, Barclay, Newhouse and DB, we may have to sit a pretty decent player, as we usually dress only three tackles.

So, I think he was underscouted and TT may have pulled off another master pick here.
As a rookie, I'm not sure what to expect from someone like this who is so young and came from a horrible team. But it sounds like there is a good upside to this guy as he is young and will fill out a bit as he ages plus he's going to get Pro coaching (insert Campen joke here).

He might be a guy like Mike Flanagan or Marco Rivera that takes some time to develop, but once he does, you're glad he's on your team.
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"I feel I can play left tackle," Bakhtiari said. "I've shown it in college, but wherever the Packers want me to play is what I'm going to play.

"They're going to give me a playbook; they're going to let me know the position, and I'm going to study it and try and become the best player I can."
kids these days! this should be fun Big Grin

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Campen said Bakhtiari and Tretter were versatile enough to play multiple positions.

"(Bakhtiari) certainly is athletic enough to do so. As you know, he played left tackle. . . . But I think he's very versatile. We'll be excited to get him in here and see where we're going to place him.

"(Tretter) is very much like David in the fact that we feel like he can play multiple positions."
I just wish I trusted Campen to guide a player through a position change. The only player I can think of that he has converted and has had success is Josh Sitton and maybe TJ Lang, but Lang had a pretty rough start. Colledge was okay also, but Spitz was a disaster, Barbre was a disaster, Moll was a disaster, Newhouse at Guard was a disaster. When they've let guys play their natural positions like moving Newhouse back to LT, they've gotten much better results. I do cut Campen some slack because they seem to keep wanting to draft exclusively Left Tackles and force them into other positions, which isn't Campen's fault. I'm not predicting these guys will fail, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Hopefully some day they will bring in true Guard or Center like Chance Warmack.
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Originally posted by Boris:
Like satori said...we don't draft high enough to select a Warmack. We constantly select in the high twenties or later.


I didn't mean a top 10 Guard necessarily, although that would be nice. I think it would help Campen out if they drafted guys, like Travis Frederick, who had played an interior position their entire college career. I would trust him to take an already good college OG or C and turn him into a good NFL OG or C.

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