Since that was one of my rare calls that came out right, I said Rey would fall in the draft and he did, not entirely for the reason I said. He got hurt before the draft so his workouts were limited. My reason was simple, he had a juvenile arrest record that was scaring teams off in conjunction with the trouble he got into at USC forcing him into anger management. He's been a couple of years now without trouble so hopefully that's behind him, but that's why I personally expected him to drop.
I don't know of any similar issues with McClain.
I was watching the Emerald Bowl last night and ESPN's draft guy(not Kiper the other one blanking on the name) has Taylor Mays ranked 16th. I don't see any way he goes that late let alone falls more but just for fun, if you're on the clock and he's sitting there do you take a kid that looks like a bigger and faster version of AW? Personally I do, we often have 3 safeties on the field anyways because we slide AW up to a LB.
Otherwise I think the team should be focussing on LB's early in the draft or pure BPA but Mays is one of those players to me that if he's there you pick him and figure out how to play him later.
USC has 3 guys likely to be in the draft who I absolutely love as fits for the Cards, Mays, Anthony McCoy(TE) and 4th year junior WR Damian Williams. I suspect Williams will slip on slower than expected 40 times he seems to be one of those guys who plays faster than he runs which is why he was underrated coming out of school and was thought to be the secondary transfer to Mustain when he left Arkansas for USC. Returns punts too, if we really are going to trade Boldin, Williams is the type of kid I'd like to get to replace him.
I also think Clausen is the tease of the draft, just never impressed me at ND seems to get half his yardage on jump balls or underthrows that his WR's outjump the defense to get.
