Kiper's first mock is in and he has Ravens taking ......

[TBird]

LT Ronnie Staley of Notre Dame but only if KO is gone. This is an early mock and we'll know

if KO is here by draft day. Staley is the second best LT in the game. Tunsil of Ole Miss will go

in the first 4. I've seen him as high as #1. If KO leaves you can plug Staley in and forget about

the left side for the next decade ala JO. It would give us the best line in football with all pro Yanda

and future all pro Wagner on the right side and they've been called the best 1-2 punch on the right

the last two years and either Ryan Jensen or Urschel taking LG. Urschel will be the Center when

Zuttah leaves. Jensen performed well when KO moved to LT.

 

If he is still here at LT Mel has us taking Treadwell but Oz will have to trade down because while

he's the best receiver on the board, he's not a top 10 pick so it wouldnt be a good value pick there

like Flacco wasn't so he traded down. So Ozzie could trade down and get him

and pick up an extra body which he loves to do.

 

Mel thinks Ramsey will go to JAGs just above us. McShay said the same in his early mock.

 

There's a lot of options here for the Ravens including Hargreaves considered the second best CB

on the board and a pure cover guy according to McShay but at 5'9, the taller receivers might bounce

him around.

 

Elsewhere over on twitter there's a lot of favorable comments from last year's draft in reference

to Zadarius Smith who Ozzie got in the Ngata trade from DET. Everyone said he did well and

one is he's the most under-rated pass rushers on the team. Maxx was the other player Oz got

for Ngata who started out the year on the IR like his Ravens brethren and didn't do much all year.

 

With guys from the last two drafts like Jernigan and Z, we have our pass rushers. We still need

a guy off the edge but we're in better shape than most fans think.

 

Chalk another one up to Ozzie. Peter King said teams never learn. Nobody wins when you trade

with NE and Baltimore. They're fleece you every time.