(09-28-2019, 08:09 AM)Caldrac Wrote:

(09-28-2019, 07:55 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: No idea what anyone else saw. When he came in heavy and ran slow at the combine that should have been all anyone needed to see from the guy.

However the big problem wasn't that Fournette obviously didn't have elite NFL talent, the big problem is RB should never be taken in the top five of the draft at all, and only obvious can't miss guys should even be taken in the first round.

Derrick Henry is the better NFL player and he was taken something like 50 picks later than Fournette. Picking RB too high has been an ongoing problem under Caldwell. I'd say Khan needs to make a rule for the front office, whenever they make their draft boards, take every RB on it and move them down two rounds to get to where they should actually be picked.

You say that but a lot of our history in Jacksonville truly dictates otherwise. It made sense THEN. But it doesn't make much sense NOW. I get why they pulled the trigger on Fournette though. They were hoping to get Zeke Elliott 2.0 after the Cowgirls passed up on Jalen Ramsey for him instead the previous year.

But Fournette didn't have a multipurpose aspect to his game coming out of LSU like Elliott and Barkley and even McCaffrey did. And he wasn't nearly as dominate as a pure runner like Adrian Peterson was coming out of Oklahoma. Plus the ankle stuff. And lack of showing up against the premier defenses in the NCAA.

And after Fred Taylor was let go and after Maurice Jones-Drew was let go this team DROWNED in the ground game. It was BAD. B-A-D. BAD. It went from MDJ's 1600 yard efforts in 2011 to a rotation of nobodies in 2012 that saw less than 1400 yards on the ground. And then for the next four or five years the running game was essentially non existent. And we clearly lacked the QB and HC with the offensive chops to make something out of this team.

Was it a reach? Absolutely. Did they make the right choice? Probably not. But... I get why they did it.

They completely misunderstood the cowgirls success. It was about getting lucky on Prescott in the later rounds more than Elliot.

We do agree about Fournette obviously being a lesser RB than those others, though. The 2017 draft was stacked with good RB talent, so of course the jaguars blew their load reaching on one that wasn't even good.

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