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Originally Posted by Baby Got Grbac
All I've read over the past few years from the Mecca's and the Dane's and the draft gurus was BPA...BPA...BPA...
Well...Alex Magee and Donald Washington, apparently, were who the Chiefs had as BPA...
Don't try and draft for need now that Carl Peterson isn't around drafting for need...can't hit on ever draft pick and apparently Pioli and his scouting staff liked Colin Brown over Meredith...you can't go 100% every year.
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There are a couple of things to consider when talking about the best player available, including need.
If you think that a guy can be a starter at his position for the next 10 years, while another player may never be anymore than a second teamer at his position, then the best player available at that pick is the guy that can start for the nest 10 years.
In the fourth round, Donald Washington is a player selected that may never crack the startig lineup, while Johnathan Luigs would be the starter on opening day, and could very well be a guy that mans that position for a decade.
In the fifth round, Jamon Meredith was a better player than Colin Brown at RT.
It wasn't even close.
The Washington pick is debatable, cause Washington has the athletic ability to possibly be a stud at corner.
The Brown pick isn't.
That guy is never going to take a snap at RT.
He looks like he might eventually be a pretty damn solid guard, but that wasn't the position they were addressing with that pick.
Best player available is the one that has the potential to help your team both now, and over the course of his career.