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

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Yea, they have all kinds of hills they espouse. Most of which are only there just to make themselves look smart or as some kind of truth when they really can't think of support.  Since 2000 there have been 48  running back drafted in the 1st round. Many more in round 2.  My favorite and our big miss because he was a local guy, Derrick Henry.  I wanted him bad and we have paid for it.

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