This is a good rule put in place for players to explore their draft position.

We think this draft is deeper than 27 players. We think we can get a good and talented player there, who can come in and help us.

There's not a specific position where we say we have to draft this or that. We'll still take the best player. We don't have a starting job open right now. It's filling in on depth.

We feel there are still a lot of quality players in these rounds of the draft, so we did our homework.

I think our 13 position players, whoever they are, would look at me like I was nuts if I didn't take those two guys. And I would lose some credibility.

It's long been said if somebody every challenged [the draft eligibility rule], they probably would win it. But I knew the league would fight it tooth and nail. The company line that I hear is that the league feels it has a good chance on appeal.