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20. Chicago Bears – Travis Frederick, Center, Wisconsin
Original pick: Kyle Long, G, Oregon
The Bears miss out on Long in our redraft, so they have to settle for the anchor on the Dallas Cowboys’ best offensive line in football, center Travis Frederick. Not a bad trade off.
21. Cincinnati Bengals – Eric Reid, Safety, LSU
Original pick: Tyler Eifert, TE, Notre Dame
With Eifert off the board, the Bengals go back to the defense, adding some youth to a rapidly aging defensive backfield with Reid.
22. Atlanta Falcons – Travis Kelce, TE, Cincinnati
Original pick: Desmond Trufant, CB, Washington
Trufant is a good NFL corner and a solid pick, but the Falcons have been missing an elite pass-catching tight end since Tony Gonzalez retired. Kelce fixes that in a single pick and adds just one more weapon for Matt Ryan to use to carve up opposing defenses.
23. Minnesota Vikings – Chance Warmack, OG, Alabama
Original pick: Sharif Floyd, DT, Florida
Floyd is a decent NFL starter, but he’s out of the first round in this draft do-over. Instead, the Vikings grab Warmack here and begin building up their offensive line three years before it starts to fall to ruin.
24. Indianapolis Colts – Justin Pugh, OT, Syracuse
Original pick: Bjorn Werner, DE, Florida State
Werner is our first real bust of the lower half of the draft. He did next to nothing in his time with the Colts and was cut over a year ago. The Jaguars signed him in the offseason, but cut him in August. Two weeks ago he announced his “retirement” while doing color on a German NFL broadcast. Pugh would be a dream come true for the Colts, who continue to build an offensive line to protect Andrew Luck.
25. Minnesota Vikings – Desmond Trufant, CB, Washington
Original pick: Xavier Rhodes, CB, Florida State
Missing out on Rhodes is a tough pill to swallow for the Vikings who nailed this pick in 2013. They’ll have to take Trufant here and replace him with another elite corner.
26. Green Bay Packers – Zach Ertz, TE, Stanford
Original pick: Datone Jones, DT, UCLA
Jones shows up as our second bust of the second half of the 2013 draft. Jones has started all of seven games in four seasons for the Packers and has record nine sacks and 58 tackles in his entire career. Ertz would have given Rodgers the reliable weapon in the passing game at tight end that can make the clutch catches without the dropsies of a guy like Jared Cook.
27. Houston Texans – Jarvis Jones, OLB, Georgia
Original pick: DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Clemson
Houston really got screwed in the draft do-over. Not only do they lose one of the best wideouts in the NFL, there aren’t any WRs left in this draft worth taking in the first round. Instead, they bolster the one weak spot in their front seven by getting a first-round outside linebacker to pair opposite Whitney Mercilus.
28. Denver Broncos – Giovani Bernard, RB, North Carolina
Original pick: Sylvester Williams, DT, North Carolina
Williams is another NFL starter relegated to the second round of my draft do-over that none of us will ever see. Instead, the Broncos take Bernard and turn him into the all-purpose weapon he was born to be. The real running back the Broncos nabbed in 2013, C.J. Anderson, turned out to be pretty great and, in this do-over situation, would get picked in the second round.
29. Minnesota Vikings – Darius Slay, CB, Mississippi State
Original pick: Cordarrelle Patterson, WR, Tennessee
Two corners in the first round for the Vikings? In a division with Aaron Rodgers, you better believe it. Frankly, even losing Xavier Rhodes in this draft, the Vikes would probably take the deal to end up with both Trufant and Slay on opposite sides of the field. Patterson is a real weapon in the return game and coming along as a wideout, but would not be a first round pick in any draft do-over scenario.
30. Los Angeles Rams – Kiko Alonso, LB, Oregon
Original pick: Alec Ogletree, LB, Georgia
With Ogletree gone, the Rams’ need at linebacker remains. Alonso is a nice pick here and probably plays on the outside for his first two seasons with the team.
31. Dallas Cowboys – Star Lotulelei, DT, Utah
Original pick: Travis Frederick, Center, Wisconsin
With Frederick gone, the Cowboys instead build up the interior of their other line. Lotulelei plugs in as a productive starter and bolsters the weakest part of Dallas’ defense.
32. Baltimore Ravens – T. J. McDonald, Safety, USC
Original pick: Matt Elam, Safety, Florida
Labeling Elam a bust is probably too strong, but he wasn’t worthy of a first round pick, that’s for sure. McDonald is not only the superior safety, but the hard hitter the Ravens like to have in the defensive backfield.
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