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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
But you have to grade on a curve.
Last year's draft class was very low on talent. It's not as much about taking Jackson #3 overall as much as it is... who else should they have taken?
The only two answers at the time were Raji and Sanchez. Raji hasn't shown anything yet and whether you agree with the move or not, Sanchez was off the table the minute they traded for Cassel.
He was a bit of a reach, but I still think it was one of the best moves they could have made given the circumstances.
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zilla, you are treating each draft as though it exists in a vacuum. Perhaps it does for a team that is one year away from making a run, but for a rebuilding team, you need to think long term. You need to look at how the strengths of the draft play out. Where the value is most likely going to be, and adjust your needs accordingly.
If there are several good QBs in a draft one year, and few to none the next two years, then those QBs have far more value, as they are a shrinking commodity. Same goes for OL. They were worth more in the mid rounds last year, because their skill level was greater than the round they were falling in would indicate, and the next few classes weren't going to be as good.
Now, that's not to say you can go into a draft and only look for the positions you absolutely need, but when analyzing the next several drafts, you should work future returns into your valuing of current picks. Obviously, if you have to choose between a middling OG to help your weak line or a very good LB to solidify your ok to good LB corps you go with the LB, but if there is a very weak class of one and a strong class of another in
next year's draft, and the prospects are similarly rated, you should get the rarer commodity.