and you are ignoring that when those redshirted rookies finally got on the field...they still sucked ass.
keim is a great drafter in the mid rounds but his first round picks suck canal water on a fairly consistent basis..... I think Reddick is probably the best one he has drafted so far
Reddick has only one year under his belt and played in a position we didn't draft him to play. That's still up in the air.
Humphries has played pretty well and may be our LT of the future, but injury has been an issue. He really stepped up after year one though, where it looked like a waste, but we went with BPA regardless of need in that draft. As it stands today, there isn't anyone we would have drafted there before our next pick that we desperately missed out on. We weren't drafting Collins or Shaq Thompson.
No excuses for Nkemdiche yet.
I hated the DBuc pick at the time, but he wasn't redshirted and has been a solid contributor here. It's not his fault Daryl Washington screwed the team. Sure, Carr could have been the pick there, but we'd just gotten Carson.
I dunno, I just don't hate Keim's first rounders as much as you do. 2013 was an awful top 10, and 2014 is the only year we missed out on some good players between our next pick - even though DBuc isn't bad. The rest, it looks like the players just weren't very good where we were picking.