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Originally Posted by RunKC
I will say that Veach’s worst decision IMO was not Speaks. It was Clyde.
Holy shit the talent we passed on for a midget RB that is struggling.
Tee Higgins
Jonathan Taylor
Laviska Shenault
Michael Pittman
Fortunately this years draft has been excellent and some pieces of last years draft have been too
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What? Dude, not even ****ing close. Speaks was by far the worst pick.
He went 46th overall. We traded UP to 46th, too. Clyde went 32nd. That's only a difference of 14 picks. And Clyde at least as value to the team. Speaks sucked his rookie year, was nonexistent in his 2nd year, and got ****ing cut after his 3rd training camp. CEH, barring injury, will be playing until the end of his contract, and he'll probably just be ok.
Disappointing? Yes. Worst draft pick by Veach? I don't think you can just say, "Look who we could have had!!!!" You have to factor in what the goal was in taking him. CEH wasn't risky necessarily, but we were banking on him being the missing piece that would achieve God mode. That's completely understandable. And I'm over the "never take RBs in the first round!" bullshit. It's the 32nd overall pick. It's barely the first round.
Speaks was a tub of goo that we targeted all draft long, and all he ever became was a worthless bust who failed in every measurable way to be a positive contributor when the team really needed him (our shitty Sutton defense). The rationale for the pick was shit, the player was shit, and it was pretty obvious to just about everyone how ****ed up of a reach that pick was when it happened.