Best Available Player is a crapshoot anyway.


DE's? Gene Smith chose two in round 5 of the 2010 nfl draft.  Austen Lane and Larry Hart.  Greg Hardy was the next DE selected after Lane in Round 6.  Had Gene Smith chosen Greg Hardy with one of those picks, things would have turned out right.  

 

Vic drilled it into everyone's head that you take the best player.  Problem is, it's not an exact science.  It doesn't matter if you pick based on need -- so long as you get the right players.  

 

You take players based on what you think they'll produce.  If you have two players: Player A and Player B, and you believe both will produce like a 1st round player, and that Player B will have more impact than Player A, but Player A is more talented, then selecting Player B still makes sense.  

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