It’s interesting, the last two tweets have touted this years crop of edge and tightends. Where did keim spend our top three picks last year? Edge and tightend. How do mcbride, Thomas and sanders comp to this years crops? If they are considered worse prospects it shows a real lack of longterm foresight on Keim’s part.
Well you can't assume that a crop will end up being good.
The Edges would be third round this year too. There would be more polished players earlier in the draft, but there were last year too though not as many. McBride would be a high second.
Taller IA?
That happens with QBs all the time but I think it’s less prevalent with other projections. It’s not a total damnation event for keim, but I do think it shows a lack of foresight.
That’s all good to know. Thanks Harry!
That happens with all positions. What if Anderson had been hurt and decided to go back for his last year of eligibility? This draft would look weaker because Anderson is the only true blue chip edge. Guys like Tyree Wilson are the next tier, but we'd all be talking about this edge class as having a lot of good edge prospects but no Aidan Hutchinson caliber player.
It really doesn’t happen as often with other positions. Two years ago everyone was saying the following draft was going to be a good receiver draft and -voila- last year was a great receiver draft. Losing a single player from a draft, like your example, doesn’t change that it just slightly downgrades it. You would have to have a bunch of projections disappoint and get injured in the same season which again happens more at the QB position than most others.
Draft sites seem to think he has good hands.
It's just not true that you can project things out. Players get hurt. Players you think will come out, don't. You're just looking for things to criticize.
Only 20 with first round grades is interesting. I wonder how that compares historically?Interesting from Matt Miller on 1st round grades
No Ringo (seeing him drop with a lot of people) and only DT is Carter.
All 20 NFL draft prospects with a Round 1 grade: What makes them a 2023 first-rounder, plus comps
We'll see 31 first-round picks in April, but which prospects have true first-round grades? We named all 20 and made pro comps for each standout.www.espn.com
I’m really not “looking for things to criticize.” Keim’s gone. I don’t need to find arguments to oust him. That just caught my eye. The same has been discussed in the past, taking an inferior talent early at a position due to need when the next year is projected to be loaded at that position. It’s not a certainty but a GM who fails to take that into consideration isn’t exploring all the data.
Also, it wasn’t a criticism of the players we chose, it was an observation with a question. If you recall I literally asked where the guys we drafted would fall talentwise in this draft. Harry said they would’ve likely gone in exactly the same (or close) places. That provided me comfort that it wasn’t an error making those picks when keim did. Still doesn’t make it worse if keim ignored the projection of 2023.
Yeah, I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with the latter, and though I was okay with the former pick, I didn't foresee either one doing much this season. Glad to be wrong for once. If only our idiot DC had played them more.
