(11-07-2022, 01:03 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(11-07-2022, 12:58 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: An elite RB has more value than a run of the mill late first round pick WR.  

He was the 25th pick in the draft.  He's looking like an elite player.  If he is, then it was a great pick.  

A lot of you act like Barry Sanders in the first round would be a bad pick.  You're sticking to this "principle" that you never pick a running back in the first round.  That is stupendously idiotic.  Running back is a tremendously important position.  Teams run the ball about 30-40% of the time, if not more.

On a team like this one a late 1st round pick is better spent on other positions than a running back.

All other things being equal, maybe you're right.  But you have to assess the relative talent of the players available at that pick.  You don't pass up Travis Etienne just because he's a running back.  Would you pass up Barry Sanders?  Or Fred Taylor?  Or Christian McCaffrey?  Sure, an elite WR would probably trump an elite RB.  But elite WRs go top-10, not 25th.  When you get to the 25th pick in the draft, and Travis Etienne is still on the board, for God's sake, you take him.

And then again, you say, "On a team like this one a late 1st round pick is better spent on other positions than a running back."  Well, judging from the last 6 games, not really.  Judging from the last 6 games, this particular RB was the right pick.

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