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Originally Posted by Mecca
If you're not drafting for need and you're not taking the best players available at the positions you're drafting, what exactly do you call your draft approach?
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Because you're talking about taking an OLB or a NT for the sake of taking those positions. That's drafting based on need.
And BPA is relative. McCluster and Moeaki could both be extremely valuable to a Weis offense. Like I said, Weis values versatility a lot more than he values players who do one thing well. He wants TEs who can block as well as they pass, so that he can deceive defenses. Same applies for a RB who can catch--probably the main reason they really seemed to covet Sproles.
The Chiefs were considering trading for Sproles, probably for the same pick they used for McCluster. And I think they would have been used in a similar way.