(04-30-2022, 03:40 PM)Upper Wrote: Yeah, all of Walker, Lloyd (including the trade), and Muma look like good picks in isolation. However, when you look at the draft as a cohesive idea to try to improve a team and then consider the opportunity cost of giving 33 and 106 for a LB it's hard to say that this draft makes us that much better.

If we had kept 33 and 106 and taken say Skyy/Pickens and Kolar/Bellinger then traded the 6ths for Waletzko who we had in for a private workout it would be a far more well rounded and I think improved draft.

That’s pretty much where I’m at.  The sum of the parts isn’t bad, but the whole is disappointing.   It’s not a terrible draft, but it is a mediocre draft, which is what mediocre teams do.  At least we’ve stepped up from a terrible team having a terrible drafts, so it’s progress.  These last two drafts just aren’t the kind of drafts that are going to put us in the playoffs.

I wish I could travel to an alternate universe and see what an Adrian Wilson/Byron Leftwich 2022 draft would have looked like.

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