We all wonder if we'll regret having passed on Jalen Carter. Or on the eleven other defensive tackles we could have taken before we finally picked Cameron Young at #123. I have to assume that John and Pete weren't high on the other DTs. Maybe they would have taken Keeanu Benton at 52 (my hope) if the Steelers hadn't nabbed him at 49. On the other hand, if they were really high on him, they could have taken him at 37.
I think that due to the scarcity of good DTs in this draft, they started to go early, and that might have screwed things up for teams that didn't want to reach. I don't know if most people thought that Kancey would go at 19, Mazi Smith at 26 or Bryan Bresee at 29. I think most people thought Smith and Bresee would be available in the second round.
Karl Dunbar, the Steelers D-line coach says that interior defensive linemen, and nose tackles in particular, are like "pretty women." He said, "Everyone wants one, but there's not a lot of them out there." The Bears must have agreed, because they took two DTs, one at #53, Gervon Dexter and one at #64, Zach Pickens. That's a lot of draft capital for that position. Ultimately, I can't look at the available DTs and say, I wish we would have taken him when we had the chance.