There wasn't really a first round worthy "need" pick available, so if not CEH, it would have been another luxury pick. Robert Hunt was the only Olineman that was maybe a first rounder. And, he's a tackle and was taken early in the second. All of the blue chip LBs were gone. A trade down for Hunt or Ezra Cleveland was about the only option for a lineman in that area.
I still think that Gladney was the pick, which is why Minn traded up in front of us to take him.