Draft Day 2025!!!

[samhain]

(6 hours ago)Isaac Curtis: The Real #85 Wrote: Amen. 

It is reaching/risking at a premium position instead of just taking the stud at a lesser position. We tgen compound the problem by taking the lesser positions later, when the studs are gone, and then we get more risks/busts & low impact guys there there, too (Carman, Carter, D. Sample, Volson, etc.).

When you say low impact vs all-out bust, I think this is telling.  It's hard to call anyone after the second round a bust.  You're getting into players with multiple flaws and gaps by round three.  You're playing with house money if you get starters in those rounds.  Impact is the thing.  If Shemar works out, it's likely going to be through a longer process of development than most of us hope for.  Malaki Starks IMO would have started on day 1 and very likely ended the Jesse Bates discussions that have gone on for the last 2 years.  Now both the question of safety and the question of edge remain, but our first round capital does not.  This is a failure IMO.  It's how you waste the greatest player in your franchise's history's prime.