(05-09-2018, 12:44 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(05-09-2018, 12:13 PM)JackCity Wrote: History has shown if you give 2nd/3rd/4th round backs the same amount of volume as a 1st round back that their production is near identical.    

"But you have to consider how many backs taken in that range ended up as busts" Well yes but the same is true for every single position in the draft. The difference being that it's much rarer to find upper tier QBs, pass rushers, corners etc etc in rounds 2, 3 , 4. Where as with running backs it's fairly common.  

I think Fournette is a good back and not a "bust". I also think his injury history is worrying and that taking a back like him that high in the draft is always a bad move. Even more so when you consider we could have drafted someone like Watson there.

Watson will be dog doo next year.

I don't think I would go that far.

I think a lot of his game is predicated on his escapability, and that is a question in the aftermath of his ACL surgery.

But people have come back from ACLs and have been productive.

My belief is that their OL may be his undoing.  I'm not sure Seantrel Henderson and rookie Martinas Rankin will be the answer at T for them.

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