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Originally Posted by TwistedChief
Here's a question I've been pondering: at what point in a player's career does his draft rank stop mattering in terms of his production?
When do we stop giving Sneed the benefit of the doubt since he wasn't a first round pick? When did we stop judging Fisher on being 1/1 and start looking at him as just a solid LT? When do you recognize that Clyde is our RB and he should now just be judged against other RBs rather than his status as a 1st round pick?
At this point, they're on your team. Production is production. Whether Clyde was a 1, a 3, or a 5, we're not able to go back and change time. If you feel like Clyde at 1 was a bad pick, your problem isn't with him - it's entirely with Veach and Reid.
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A huge chunk of the fanbase
never got over Fisher going 1.1.
Guy was one of the better LTs in the league playing on a contract that paid him 60% of what the top of the market was getting and folks were still constantly looking to cut him to save cap space.
Had the guy been taken at 25th overall he'd have been a guy the fanbase loved but instead he was always on the chopping block for some people.
A guy's draft status becomes immaterial the moment his contract is signed. Past that any further analysis is of the organizational team that made the call to draft him and the opportunity cost of same.