Gumby
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Taking a player, that takes 5 years to develop as a competent receiver, at #4 seems a bit high to me.
And if that is really the 4th best player in the draft... it really sucked.
Agreed,
Teams expect a player taken in first 16 picks to contribute IMMEDIATELY.
Also, a guy who takes 4-5 years to develop; means someone TAUGHT HIM! At any one time, at least 28 of the 32 team's coaching/mngmt-teams don't have either the patience or the skills, or both.
So calling him 4th best player by accomplishment is fine, but don't say retroactively you would have picked him there (which by title is supposedly the point of the article). That is silly. If anybody knew what he would become they could have easily picked him up at his RFA/initial FA timeframe by overbidding pats by $250-500k and skipped all the hard development process reqmts. Nobody else was interested then either.