Jags boost draft pick total by moving McDaniel

<em>Posted by ESPN.com's Paul Kuharsky</em> <p>Jacksonville has a lot of holes, and not so many draft picks.</p> <p>The boosted their total to&nbsp;seven on Thursday, trading defensive tackle Tony McDaniel to Miami for a seventh-round selection, according to ESPN.com' senior writer John Clayton. It's unclear which of the Dolphins' three seventh-round picks the Jaguars are getting - Miami has picks in the round from Cleveland and Carolina in addition to its own.</p> <p>McDaniel played in 10 games, starting three for the Jaguars last season, which he finished on IR with a toe injury. He was part of a group the team hoped would effectively replace Marcus Stroud, who was traded to Buffalo. But production from the spot was not good and John Henderson did not have a good year with Rob Meier, Derek Landri and McDaniel getting the bulk of the work</p> <p>The position ranks as one of the team's big draft needs.</p> <p>The Jaguars are without their original seventh-rounder in the draft. The eighth pick of the seventh round belongs to Tampa Bay from a trade.</p> <p>They are <a href="/blogs/afcsouth/0-8-64/Code-breaker-projects-compensatory-picks.html" target="_blank">projected by an expert</a> in the compensatory draft pick award formula to get another seventh when compensatory selections are announced, likely next week.</p> <p>http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afcsouth/0-8-64/Code-breaker-projects-compensatory-picks.html</p> <p>A review of their picks before compensatory selections are awarded at the back end of the third through seventh rounds.</p> <blockquote> <p>First round -- Eighth overall<br /> Second round -- 39th<br /> Third round -- 72nd overall<br /> Also:<br /> Seventh in the fourth round.<br /> Eighth in the fifth round<br /> Seventh in the sixth round.<br /> Either the fifth, 23rd or 28th pick of the seventh round from Miami.</p> </blockquote>

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