(05-02-2021, 08:24 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: You never know.  In 1974, the Steelers draft included 4 players who are now in the Hall of Fame.  In the 2000 draft, the Patriots draft was all complete busts except for one guy they drafted in the 6th round who turned out to be arguably the greatest pro football player of all time.  We don't know what's going to happen.

Bingo.

To add one more example, Seattle was trashed for their 2012 draft, which netted them two likely Hall of Famers in Bobby Wagner and Russell Wilson.

Our immediate impressions are nice to have and debate, but at the end of the day, we won't know until they prove it wither way on the field.

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(05-02-2021, 07:12 AM)JeepJag Wrote: The reality is no one, be it on the boards or professionals, has any idea how these drafts will be. If y’all actually watched college football this year, it took about halfway through the season for the teams that played to look like they were even approaching full stride, and that was only the teams not hit by covid. Grades, good or bad, are worthless. This draft is more off of potential than any in recent memory because this past CFB season wasn’t even a real season and had no real offseason before.

Yes.  More guesswork and speculation by teams than normal due to the circumstances.  The crap shoot became a crappier shoot.

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(05-02-2021, 07:21 AM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(05-02-2021, 12:04 AM)Bullseye Wrote: At first glance, it appears Jaguars fans are harder on our draft than many outside observers...

USA Today

https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/lists...nfl-teams/


Pro Football Focus

https://www.pff.com/news/draft-2021-nfl-...l-32-teams

New York Post

https://nypost.com/2021/05/01/2021-nfl-d...SocialFlow

the Tennessean

https://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/...-autopilot

For kicks I looked at pff's ratings and no team got below a C-, so a B+ is more like a B- or C+ if you use stacked a ranking, which is what they should be using, and the Jaguars would be in the middle tier. Every team can't have an average or better draft when it's all from the same pool of players.

That being said, I'm not worrying about trying to evaluate the draft class right now, I'll evaluate them in the fall.

Sporting News did what you suggested here, and we ranked 17th.

We gotta wait and see.

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