posted by justincredible

Jets have to draft a WR today. A trade up into the 2nd would be nice.

Ok, a trade up to the first pick in the 3rd for a WR. 

Joe Douglas has been trading back over and over like a dork, finally drafts the QB I was hoping he would in Jordan Travis.

Jets drafted a CB from the CFL. I didn't know that was a thing.

As someone who’s gotten a lot of draft feedback from Twitter the last couple days, anyone or any team can be good or bad or a winner or loser depending on where you look. 

posted by friendfromlowry

As someone who’s gotten a lot of draft feedback from Twitter the last couple days, anyone or any team can be good or bad or a winner or loser depending on where you look. 

Only pick the Browns had that I was pretty pleased with was the guard from Michigan. 

Wasn't really invested in this years draft as a) the Browns (again) didn't have a 1st rounder and b) outside of LB and maybe RB, the roster really didn't have any holes to fill. One could argue WR but I think they will address that next year. The guys they drafted this year likely won't see the field in 2024 and are more "futures."

posted by friendfromlowry

As someone who’s gotten a lot of draft feedback from Twitter the last couple days, anyone or any team can be good or bad or a winner or loser depending on where you look. 

Pretty much, but I can't say I'm surprised.

When it comes to draft "analysis", you have a lot of different people giving opinions that all come down to:

1. Positions of need for a team, usually. Which is usually pretty easy to determine, although some people probably have different ideas as to what need is most needed.

2. Who they consider to be the best players at that position. Pick that guy, you get an A. Pick another guy, you get a lower grade.

3. Over-reaching to get a pick, where it might be a position of need, but there wasn't necessarily the talent available to pick a guy there with your early pick.

Which all leads to a situation where some picks are roundly praised or mocked (for the latter, Atlanta with Penix due to how they just spent a lot of money on a QB, so it wasn't a "top 10 pick position of need" OR Denver with Nix because QBs had gone off the market right and left and he was considered an overreach even if that was a position of need), but with the majority of them, different people have different views.

Mainly because it's all a crap-shoot based on some combination of their previous play in college, their combine numbers, how they responded to the weird and invasive questions random personnel throw at them in interviews just to test their reactions and so on. With that all potentially being filtered through random bullshit, such as how reports got leaked last year about how Stroud was a dummy, which played a role in Young going before him.

Does anyone ever do draft grades three or five years later?