[MIJB#19]

General Manager Notes: The draft of the wide receiver?
The draft has started and it's been a crazy one so far. The top five picks have all been spent on wide receivers. Although I considered picking one, but with those guys gone, we looked elsewhere.

The hope was to grab a safety, perhaps by a little trade down, but the class at that position is very disappointing. We interviewed a bunch of talented prospects, none looked worthy of a top ten pick.

And thus, we did the Merchantmen thing: we grabbed the best defensive tackle we could get our hands on: Heath Oliver. With the size of Shaun Hartman, we got something to look forward too. He's coming from the small college of Shippenburg, but really, that just adds to it. "Shippenburg", that just rings Merchantmen all over.

We've interviewed a couple of quarterbacks as well, but neither wowed us. We may consider one of them in the fifth round, but let's wait and see.

For now, we got the best player in the draft, as far as we know. That's quite the achievement, if it holds up, given that we got cornerback Kirk Hitchcock in 2081 and Theodore Bondy in 2082, both are (by our staff) listed as the best player of their class, at key positions.

But it ain't worth a thing, if they don't get a ring...