(03-16-2021, 03:50 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Alualu is good. He has always been solid. It isn't his fault Gene Smith took him 10th overall.

I still remember where I was when this happened. Whiskey River at Town Center, front U-shaped booth, 2nd seat from the right side. I remember being really excited for this draft when when the pick came, I was still brainwashed because Gene got a steal out of Terrance Knighton and figured this dude was smarter than everybody in the room. I remember everyone in the restaurant looking at each other asking who in the hell this guy was.

Just a refresher, some names picked after him in the 1st:

Earl Thomas
JPP
Pouncey
Dez Bryant
Devin McCourty

Miller's Ale House on Beach & Hodges and it was packed..  High-top, table, there were six of us.  Buckets of beers on the table and I had just finished a prime rib.  The pick came in and the place got quiet.  Goodell stepped up to the mic and you could hear a pin drop.  Shocked silence for a second, than two hundred voices, simultaneously asking "Who"?

He was solid, just not a first round talent.  Mid 2nd-early 3rd would have been a decent value.  He was probably as surprised as the rest of us.

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