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Originally Posted by BossChief
With no risk, there is no chance at a big reward.
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The biggest risk/reward QB in this draft was E.J. Manuel. He'll either be a bust or Daunte Culpepper (before the knee injury). Had the Chiefs taken that chance, I'd have been on board 100%.
I didn't like Geno Smith as a first or second rounder but I did like Barkley as a second rounder. Turns out, Barkley was a fourth rounder.
I didn't like Wilson at all. I thought Bray was the best developmental QB in the draft due to his ideal size, arm strength and age. But I wouldn't have imagined that he would go undrafted. I figured (incorrectly, as it turns out) that he'd be gone in the third.
True to "expert" projections, this was not a good year for QB's as seen by NFL Scouts, GM's, coaches and media prognosticators. If anything positive can be taken by this offseason, it's that those media prognosticators are far more in touch with NFL thinking than previously suspected. The world between informed mock drafters and the NFL is shrinking exponentially.
I just hope that next offseason, people take that information into consideration, instead of bashing anyone (those prognosticators included) furiously while waiting for the draft to unfold. It'll make for a much more pleasant experience.