After surprisingly missing out on Rolando McClain in the in front round, the Jaguars reportedly set their sights on a work up into the secondly path for Penn State linebacker Sean Lee. According to Gene Smith, Jacksonville had a shoppers in circumstance with the Philadelphia Eagles for the 55th overall initiate before losing out to the Dallas Cowboys. Smith contends that the Jaguars' offering was more valuable, but the Cowboys ended up making the deal and fetching Lee for themselves.
Thus spurned, Jacksonville stayed put at the 74th garner and chose Louisiana Tech's D'Anthony Smith, a strikingly nearly the same expectation to first-rounder Tyson Alualu. Lacking Alualu's BCS-conference drama and expensive principles pedigree, Smith's 35-inch vertical rush still hints at top-tier explosiveness. Considering final season's uninspired rotation of defensive linemen, the Jaguars will entitled an infusion of early-round measure in the trenches. Their failed draft-day trade, though, suggests that they'd rather be welcoming Lee.
GRADE: D [Photo good manners of the Scout.com website.] Round 4, Pick 108 - Traded for Oakland Raiders LB Kirk Morrison Entering Saturday, Rolando McClain and Sean Lee were lengthy gone. Having wearied their two picks from the draft's sooner two days on pass-rushing defensive tackles, the Jaguars were sinistral with five picks to bargain their midriff linebacker.
Problem? Not with the Oakland Raiders calling. After drafting scouting unite superstar Bruce Campbell with their allotted fourth-rounder, the Raiders were looking to institute another settling on at daybreak Saturday. Their offer: linebacker Kirk Morrison and a fifth orb-like pick. Not surprisingly, the work was theirs. Oakland added the 4.28-second 40-yard throw hightail it of Clemson off receiver Jacoby Ford, and Jacksonville began the terminating hour of the frame by scratching the yen that neither of the maiden two picks could reach.
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