Still almost three months until the NFL draft, but less than a couple weeks until the scouting combine, so you know mock draft season is in full effect. Todd McShay has his second mock draft of the year out today , and the player he has listed going to the New York Giants at No. 9 is Iowa tackle Brandon Scherff.

It's an Insider piece, so I can't give you the whole thing, but the line you'll like is the one where he says Scherff "is perfectly wired to be a New York Giants offensive lineman. He's durable, tough, strong and nasty."

I've been writing for years that the Giants need to commit more of their high-end resources to their offensive line, so if they take a lineman at No. 9, obviously I would consider that a good long-term move. But my hunch is that they will try to find a free-agent tackle, move Justin Pugh inside to guard, then attack defense early in the draft, either with a pass-rusher or a safety.

The market dictates these things, though, and if they can't find their offensive line answers in free agency, they do bring back Jason Pierre-Paul and do better on defense in free agency than they expect to do, then they could find themselves looking for a first-round offensive lineman come draft time. Never a bad play, in my humble opinion.