(01-28-2022, 09:39 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(01-27-2022, 10:31 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Neither one was rated by anyone as highly as they were taken, until about 2 weeks before the draft. That's when media starts to at least get an idea that teams might be taking certain players. Henderson had huge red flags about his tackling ability and Caldwell didn't even bother to interview him and Chaisson was a flash in the pan who had a couple big games at LSU and disappeared in others. There is replacing players in the draft, and totally reaching. Caldwell reached badly. I will always believe he did it on purpose.

I'd debate that, especially on the part of CJ.
Everyone was mocking him to us, in large part because he was a top CB prospect in that class and the whole Ramsey debacle. Many characterized it as the perfect scenario where the top player fell right to where we were picking (IIRC R1 P9?).

I think hindsight might be skewing this view a bit.

They only started mocking him to us about two weeks before the draft, when the media started to get a sense of who GM's might pick. Before that, Henderson was nowhere close to being the #9 overall pick. Even if he would have been, Caldwell didn't even bother to interview Henderson to see what kind of guy he was. Who does that?

Hindsight is not skewing anything. Go back and look at my post from that draft. I was furious. I hated both first round picks.

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