Yeah, it feels like they could use a vet on the DL but they don't appear to be considering that. Banks is out of shape and won't play much, whereas the buzz on Orange has been positive, but he's always going to be a rotational guy. Ingram-Dawkins should be a passing-downs only DL but he might have to play a lot, and he didn't flash much last year in 250 snaps.
A 37 year old Hitman isn't going to bump this defense positively in my opinion. He hasn't been in his prime for 2+ seasons and having to ramp up mid-season is probably going to lead to some bad early games for him... when he could have just showed up to training camp like the rest of the players.
Gerhardt got cut from our practice squad, he was center #4/5 in camp. I have no idea why they bothered to draft him when he wasn't a top 500 player on some boards, wasn't that good in college and whadda know, his NFL career might already over. They probably just turned that pick over to an area scout who took his favorite 'deep sleeper'... but yeah, they should have went center earlier in the draft. Maybe over drafting the highest FB taken over a decade. The 7th round would be the right time for a FB instead of Round 5 and then blowing the 7th on a non-NFL caliber prospect.