(10-09-2023, 06:49 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(10-08-2023, 02:44 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: I don't want to spend a 1 on a guy we could get for a 3 who we have to replace in two years anyway.

I read this all the time.  "You can find a RB in later rounds."  Yes, you can.  You can also find any other position in later rounds.  But if you want a great player, the odds are better if you don't let a bunch of them go off the board before you pick.  

I thought it was a great pick at the time.  I wanted Travis Etienne since I first saw him in college.  The thing I noticed when I first saw him was his acceleration.  What I did not know was how tough he is running between the tackles.

People want to die on this philosophical hill of "don't draft a RB until later in the draft" but when there's a great player, you have to bend that philosophy and that take the guy.