Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
The NFL is a passing game & you've got to have defenders that disrupt the passing game.

With the first pick, you take the guy with the greatest ability to do that.

80% of the time, that's going to be a DE, but there is a 20% of DT in the Aaron Donald or Chris Jones mode, that disrupt the passing game quite well
depends what defense you run also tho. A 3-4 DE is not the same as a 4-3 DE. And you left out guys like Fletcher Cox, Jeffrey Simmons, DeForest Buckner, Geno Atkins...total disruptors