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Here's the list of #1 overall picks since 2001 (i.e. the start of the dynasty):
Michael Vick, David Carr, Carson Palmer, Eli Manning, Alex Smith, Mario Williams, JaMarcus Russell, Jake Long, Matthew Stafford, Sam Bradford, Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, Eric Fisher, Jadeveon Clowney, Jameis Winston, Jared Goff, Myles Garrett, Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray
How many of those guys were worth throwing away your season for?
Luck I guess
Maybe Vick if he hadn't gotten into trouble
Long and Garrett were / have been excellent at their positions but not sure I'd go 0-16 intentionally to try to get them.
Jury is out on Murray
Everyone else on there is either super average or flat out bad.
Sure by starting in the Brady era I cut out Pink Head and Orlando Pace, and sure, maybe Tua will be better than any of those guys, but do you really think so?
It's just too hard to identify who's going to save your franchise. In retrospect it may very well have been worth tanking for Pat Mahomes, but he went 10th!
Did we all forget Suck for Luck?
That's a matter of numbers, though, not some magical find. The notion that having the first pick overall isn't significant just doesn't hold up to the facts of the draft.
List of first overall National Football League draft picks - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Can't a team take the amount of $$ that they would have spent on a top pick and use it for a proven FA? I think the Rams are in that situation now that they traded away their top picks for the next couple of years.
Can't a team take the amount of $$ that they would have spent on a top pick and use it for a proven FA? I think the Rams are in that situation now that they traded away their top picks for the next couple of years.