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Originally Posted by Mecca
Every DT we drafted was an absolute reach for a need........even the one who wasn't suppose to be a reach got picked because Vermiel believed his buddy John Bunting.
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I don't entirely agree. I don't know how you can call Sims a reach when he was arguably the best DT in the draft (before hindsight) and was projected to go in the top ten. Maybe Bunting fooled Vermeil, but he fooled a lot of other people too. Sims looked like a legit prospect coming out of college. I guess you could say we didn't need to move up to get him, because at least one of the other two highly touted DTs would have still been there. But overall, I don't see that as a reach as much as just a bust pick.
It's also not over-reaching to expect a top ten pick to fill an immediate need.
Siavii may have been a reach, but it's not because we were trying to fill an immediate need. Vermeil said from the start that he was raw and was a project. They never intended him to come in right away and compete for a starting DT spot.