No he didn't. First of all, Easley played in 11 games, and both started and ended the season very injured. He came into training camp unable to even participate, and left the season in the beginning of Dec on IR.
To take it one step further, in 5/11 games, he saw 20 reps or less. If that's what you consider a "competitive" rookie season, then you're just saying that to try and prove your point. My position was never that Easley beat Siliga out, but rather that Siliga took advantage of the fact that Easley was a rookie who was hurt, thus offering zero competition. That may change in the future, and therefore your statement that "why would you think a first rounder may beat Siliga out when it didn't happen last year" has no place in this conversation. Last year was an entirely different story, as is the case every single year. For all you know, we could get the second coming of Aaron Donald this year in the draft.
If you wish me to state that Siliga was the "starter" for the period between mid-Dec and the Super Bowl to stop this nonsense, fair enough--but that doesn't prove a damn thing about the bulk of the 2014 reps (which Siliga did not get--hence the use of the term 'rotational depth,') nor the future moving forward. As of today he's laid up in a hospital attempting a long road of recovery, so we have absolutely no idea as to what his health will even be, let alone the other factors that go into making the decision with Easley and any other draft picks or free agents.