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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.IMO complete nonsense. Nobody can accurately and precisely evaluate this. Huge complicating factors are individual team needs, the ability of individual players to "make it" at the NFL level, and the ability for a team to "coach up" the rookies leading up to the season and beyond. Does anybody really care what these dweebs' opinions are? Just more click bait to ignore.
Gotta wonder what "grade" the mediots would give to THIS use of draft picks...
1st round (#32) - experienced, elite WR
2nd round (#64) - very good, experienced rotational DE
3rd round (#83) - DE/OLB, potential rookie contributor - DEREK RIVERS
3rd round (#85) - OT, potential 2nd-year starter - ANTONIO GARCIA
4th round (#137) - solid, experienced #2 move-TE
4th round (#131) - DE/3-TECH potential rotational/backup - DEATRICH WISE
5th round (#163) - solid, experienced RB
5th round (#183) - experienced #3 TE/proven special-teamer
6th round (during 2016) - Van Noy, experienced starting LB
6th round (during 2016) - experienced #3 TE, Michael Williams
7th round (#211) - potential backup OT - CONNOR McDERMOTT
Grading a team's "draft" exclusively based on which (still) untested college prospects they selected is totally effing meaningless. Yet another in a long list of reasons to ignore media opinions.
What a waste of time to grade drafts a day after they finish.
What a waste of time to grade drafts a day after they finish.
Not sure even Kony Ealy's mom would describe his NFL career to this point as 'very good.'
definitely agree that draft grades are meaningless until about three years out. But with that said, Deus made a good point, they reflect some evaluation by some more or less knowledgeable observers. Can be interesting to see how they analyze and justify their grade.Grading is very simple:
"I like/don't like the player(s) for the team, and I like/don't like where that/those player(s) were picked in the draft, based upon my knowledge base and any inherent prejudices."
I don't see any reason for people to get worked up about it, one way or the other.
These draft grades are pointless. They just give high grades to teams that picked the players that correspond with the media's big boards and low grades to those that didn't. They also always give high grades to teams that have loads of high picks.
You can't really grade until 3 years after the draft. Look at players like James White, Logan Ryan, Duron Harmon, Trey Flowers, Marcus Cannon, Julian Edelman etc. All players that have taken time to develop but became key contributors.
Once on the roster everyone is pretty much in the same boat anyways - all fighting for a spot on the final 53
- They aren't pointless, though they don't mean much beyond being data points.
- You can often grade in less than 3 years. Who needed 3 years to evaluate the Patriots 2007+2008 drafts, at least for the most part?
- If you don't grade early, you're told that you're only commenting in hindsight, later on.