My blood pressure is helped if I just pretend that Harry was an undrafted free agent and is plugging along, holding onto a roster spot somehow.
In all seriousness, that is what I do. Once they are on the team, it doesn't matter how they got there. Just like at work, it doesn't matter if the person next to me is an Ivy League grad, community college, high school drop out, whatever. What matters is can they do the job or not, are they useful to the team or not.
The evaluation process has deep flaws. We can all name draft busts, we can all name people who out-performed their draft positions. Both under-performance and over-performance shows the evaluation process is really flawed.
Whatever the team 'paid' for the draft pick (they are free, after all) becomes irrelevant once they're picked, because there is no way to un-pick them. It's a sunk cost, never to be seen again.
The draft industrial complex is a vast machine. It keeps people talking for months before and after, during a period where there is no actual football. It appeals to humans because we're all judgmental. We like to assign values to things then later be proven right, or get pissed when we're proven wrong. We seem to get a perverse joy out of some other human being being assigned their 'value' all in one simple number, their draft position, then arguing about what that number should be. We on our couches like to feel that we're better than professional evaluators when we get something right and they get something wrong.
Bottom line is too much hype is associated with the whole process. Sure, it's an important thing, but once it's over, what's the point of being pissed years later about the outcome? You actually had zero input to the pick despite what your mind thinks, and you can't change the result.
You can sit and scream to yourself "I would have picked X instead of Y" or type it into the internet, but guess what, no one on the team asked for your input never mind let you make the pick, and no matter how much internal angst you have the team still has Y not X.
We have fantasy football and the name is accurate, it's all just a fantasy. In the real world pretty much no one cares how your fantasy football team is doing, because it impacts nothing about the real world. Same is true about draft opinions.
Hate the Harry pick all you want, he's still on the team, and there's nothing you can do about it. Better to spend your energy elsewhere, IMO.
