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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
The Pats won 3 Super Bowls, and had no first rounders on their line
The '99 Rams had 1, Pace
The 2000 Ravens had 1, Ogden
The 2002 Bucs had 1, and it was their RT, Kenyatta Walker
The 2005 Steelers had 3, they were a 6 seed, and none were taken higher than 23.
The 2006 Colts had 1, Tarik Glenn
The 2007 Giants had 0.
The 2008 Steelers had 0.
So, If you average those out you get an average of .7 first rounders per Super Bowl champion.
Five teams had no first rounders, 4 had 1, 0 had 2, and one had 3.
Of those 7 first rounders, 4 were taken in the top 20 and two in the top 10.
We already have one. Logic would dictate that we are far better served addressing other needs rather than bloating our cap with OL that we are unable to retain (see the Steelers with Hartings, Faneca, and Simmons).
Remember, even when we had our best line, there was only one first rounder on it, Roaf, two UDFAs (Waters and Wiegmann), a third rounder, and a fourth rounder.
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How are these stats relevant without taking into consideration factors such as what those teams needs were and what was available in prior drafts?
Do you really think the stats would be that much different if you did it for RB, WR, DL or anything but QB?
Did you notice there's only 7 teams in that sample pool?
Come on Hamas, you're smarter than this.