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Originally Posted by Cassel's Reckoning
There is not enough of a difference between LT and LG to call Gallery as big of a bust as you're implying. It's not like it's a WR moving to RB. 
He's in the same ballpark of player quality as Tyson Jackson. They both play/played positions of secondary importance, and they are/were nothing more than solid at that position. |
Well,no doubt he will never live up to the pick.
But let's not put guard on the same level as a five technique. The five tech may be secondary in importance, but guard is probably third tier. Namely because good guards grow on trees.
Secondly, what makes gallery a bust is how insanely good that draft class was. The raiders passed up on rivers. Big Ben. Fitzgerald. And despite the tragedy,Sean Taylor too. I think the reason Tyson Jackson feels like a much better pick than gallery is that everyone knows its not like we made some kind of a big miss. In fact, sadly, Tyson Jackson is one of the best picks out of that top ten. Arguably, he's the third best of that group, so the #3 pick is kind of fitting.