| Re: Ravens Unsure How to Use 29th Pick
OWINGS MILLS, Md. - The Baltimore Ravens have spent months pondering the best way to use the 29th overall pick in the NFL draft. Despite all that research, they know their selection will depend on the actions of the 28 teams in front of them.
As a result of their 13-3 record last season, the Ravens will get the second-lowest draft pick in franchise history next week. The only other time they drafted this late in the first round was in 2001, when Baltimore picked last after winning the Super Bowl.
The Ravens snagged tight end Todd Heap with that choice, proof that there's plenty of talent available late in the first round.
General manager Ozzie Newsome and director of college scouting Eric DeCosta have devised an expansive list of players they hope to snare in the opening round. When one gets taken, the next guy on the chart becomes targeted _ regardless of position.
</SPAN>Thus, Baltimore's first-round selection will be dictated by who's left.
"There are some players we like, and I think we'll get a pretty good player," DeCosta said Tuesday. "History is a good indicator that we're going to get a player who falls down to us who we had pretty highly rated. It could be a top 20 player or it could be somebody from our top 25. I feel confident that will happen again, that we'll get a guy we're excited about on draft day."
Best available player...I like it...go with what the field gives you...  | 
04-22-2007, 06:01 AM
Ravens Unsure How to Use 29th Pick 
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