I discovered a draft simulator this morning and wasted nearly all eight hours of my boss's day on it today.
After trying many, many different strategies I came to the conclusion the team needs to go QB and OT with the first two draft picks. No matter how hard I tried to pick a WR with their first or second pick - no matter what trade ups or trade downs - the QB/OT or OT/QB results looked better every time.
I was really trying to find a way make a WR earlier be the better master plan, but could not make it happen.
For example, one of the better ones was trading down to 7.
At that point the Pats have a choice of Maye or McCarthy, choose one.
At 34 I take the best OT on the board; in this case Suamataia.
By comparison the next highest ranked OT is Rosengarten, rated #87.
At 38 (via the trade) my choices at WR are Worthy, McConkey, Corley, Franklin, Wilson, Legette, McMillan, etc.
I'm not trying to suggest this draft simulator is flawless.
It just seems to me that WR should wait until their third pick.
The worthwhile OTs and QBs will be gone by then.
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