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Originally Posted by RUSH
Inherited and what have they done at the position since he left? Hitchens was a FA.
And what about in Philly? They basically had shit at LB his entire tenure and it was revolving door every year. Hard to sell that all of this history is a coincidence.
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I was curious, so I looked up Andy Reid's draft history when it comes to LBs.
His Philly history with LBs looks bad at first, but consider the draft batting percentage of some of the game's best GMs. Then think about their percentages of finding quality players in the later rounds. This is probably right in line with the average if we're just isolating one position.
He drafted one solid franchise cornerstone player (Trent Cole). He drafted few guys who started multiple seasons and were all-around valuable players (Omar Gaither, Stewart Bradley, Mychal Kendricks). The rest were kind of crap, or at least they didn't do anything of note for the Eagles.
Also, lol at all the former Chiefs on this list. Quinton Caver. Man, I remember when we were so desperate for good defense during the Vermeil days we were splooging over picking up a 2nd round pick that was cut early. "Hey, it can't get any worse" was a rather exciting justification for a lot of our personnel moves back then.
1999: Barry Gardner (2nd round)
2001: Quinton Caver (2nd round)
2002: Tyreo Harrison (6th round)
2005: Matt McCoy (2nd round) Trent Cole (5th round) David Bergeron (7th round)
2006: Chris Gocong (3rd round) Omar Gaither (5th round)
2007: Stewart Bradley (3rd round)
2008: Bryan Smith (3rd round) Joe Mays (6th round) Andy Studebaker (6th round)
2009: Moise Fokou (7th round)
2010: Keenan Clayton (4th round) Ricky Sapp (5th round) Jamar Cheney (7th round)
2011: Casey Matthews (4th round) Brian Rolle (6th round) Greg Lloyd Jr (7th round)
2012: Mychal Kendricks (2nd round)
I probably don't need to post his Chiefs draft history. Ya'll can figure that one out yourselves.