2010 Starters and Depth

Greetings Rumblers! This is my first post on the site, although I have been following it for quite some time now, and I like the football knowledge and Bills-specific information, as opposed to other sites that just read the final score and stat sheet and make decisions on the Bills based on public perception.

    
Unlike most fans, I actually had high hopes for this past year. I envisioned Trent rounding into form, an offensive juggernaut featuring TO, Evans, Lynch, Jackson, and a host of young stars in Hardy, Johnson, and Nelson that would tear up the scoreboard. Maybin was unstoppable, and if he was stopped, Shoebel would be there instead. McKelvin was a lockdown corner, Poz and Mitchell were everywhere, and our young offensive line, even without Walker, would quickly get used to each other with minimal growing pains. Pass the Kool-aid.
   
What happened? Besides the obvious lack of talent at certain positions (cough, Trent), the Bills ended up putting almost two entire starting units on IR. Now, I know that injuries are a part of the game, but they always have been, and some teams manage to find a way to win in spite of them. These teams have depth (gasp!). We did not. We had (and have) a lot of dead weight that was unable to perform up to standards in crunch time. Perhaps if there weren't so many players on IR, we might still be talking this season's football instead of draft. Probably not, but who knows. What we can glean from this, though, is that there is no room on this football team for players that can't play.

I put together a realistic starting O and D, and grouped the rest into depth to see where the holes would be. The results-

QB: ?
LT: ?
LG: Levitre
C: Wood or Hang
RG: Butler or Wood or Incognito
RT: Butler or Bell
WR1: Evans
WR2: Hardy or ?
TE1: Nelson
TE2: Schouman
RB: Jackson

DE1: Schoebel or ?
DE2: Kelsey or Maybin
DT1: Stroud
DT2: Williams
LB1: Mitchell
LB2: Poz
LB3: ?
CB1: McGee
CB2: Florence
SS: Whitner/Scott
FS: Byrd

K: Lindell
P: Moorman
LS: Sanborn

Depth:
QB: Fitz, Brohm or draft project
RB: Lynch, ?
OT: whoever doesn't start, Meredith, Scott
OL: Incognito, Hang
WR: Johnson, Jenkins, ?
TE: Fine, ?

DE: Maybin, Ellis, ?
DT: Johnson, ?
LB: Ellison, Buggs, Palmer or Harris
CB: McKelvin, Corner, Youboty, Lankster or Harris
S: Scott or Whitner, Wilson

So we need:
A starting LT
A starting QB
A starting LB
Potentially a starting DE
Potentially a starting WR, depending on Hardy or Johnson.

and for depth:
A third string RB
A WR
A TE
A DE
A DT

Obviously this can't all be addressed in the draft, but cheap FA's are out there for depth players. Overall, we need to be better prepared when injury strikes, so that Nic Harris and Ashlee Palmer aren't starting LB's.  Thoughts?