(10-30-2023, 11:22 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-30-2023, 10:58 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: It could just as easily happen with any other position.

Man, you almost get it. 

YES!! Of course there is risk taking any position early so why not take that giant risk on the more valuable positions!!!!???????!!!!!

All other things being equal, of course you would take a great LT or a great CB over a great RB.  But you have to evaluate the players' talent levels as well as the position they play.  If you have the opportunity to draft a great player at a devalued position or a mediocre player at a more valued position, you have to add it all up and see if it makes sense.  The whole idea that one would never take a RB in the first round, no matter what, is not smart at all.  Etienne was taken with the 25th pick in the draft.  That is not where you would normally get a star player.  Normally, at the end of the first round, you get solid players, but not star players.  But we arguably got a star player.  In this instance, talent level factored into the choice and when we added it all up, talent level plus positional value, we got a great player.  I really don't get this continuing argument about whether we should have drafted him or not.

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