I know there's a lot of speculation, but we have good linebackers. If you look at our team, you'll see that we have good players at a lot of positions. So luckily for us, we've put ourselves in a position where we don't have to do anything.

I'm not saying he's Priest Holmes. But I'm sure he had some of that in the back of his mind, too. That was a selling point.

At this point, you don't rule anything out. There's good players out there. If there are good players and we have an interest in them, we'll try and get them in here.

There's an abundance of linebackers in this draft. There are a number of good first-day linebackers.

There's a number of good first-day linebackers in this draft. A lot of them.

There were no trade discussion talks on Monday. I can tell you that. Those discussions never took place.

Everyone's going to stay on through the draft. I haven't had a chance to speak to all of them. I will speak to the scouts, but it's a little premature to talk about that. They're already in the process of getting ready for free agency, and I'm just going to jump in and add some things here and there and move forward.

To be honest with you, we've talked about really not needing to do anything. We could basically just sit there, take our picks, and we'll be happy.

We do not have to reach on anybody. We could go up a couple or we could go down a couple. But I don't see us ever doing anything to jeopardize the long-term success of the club. We won't do that.

This year, he will lead, because a lot of these coaches and myself, there's no way we could know all (the rookies). There's no way. There's only so much we can do.