Quote:Yeah...70% don't want him.....Google "consensus"...actually 71% if you count percentage the same way you do Manziel's height...

As said before, the term of the polls are a bit extreme, and I think you're reading the results wrongly/too harshly.

I mean surely you don't think that any player in the entire draft would have over 71%, or even 50% of the votes for the #3 pick on THESE boards do you? Everybody has a different opinion from what I've seen.

 

So how do you ever determine a consensus then? Well you see who has the highest or lowest percentage

For example Manziel won the heisman will something like 45% of the first places votes, and RG3 won it with something like 34% during his year. Meaning there were almost 70% who didn't vote for RG3, but he had a higher percentage of anyone else...get it?

 

And so like I said before, put Bottles, or Bridgewater, or some of these other guys under the same three poll questions of 1)take at #3, 2)trade-up, or 3)do not want, and I would venture to guess the results would look something like this,

71% of people "don't want Manziel"

72% of people "don't want Clowney"

75% of people "don't want Bridgewater"

95% of people "don't want Bottles"

99% of people "don't want Watkins"

 

So then, you still didn't answer my previous question. Under those same 3 poll criteria, would any player(other than maybe Clowney) get higher than 30% on these boards? If not, then simple math would tell you than Manziel is in fact the consensus pick. Now lemme be clear, I'm not saying that's true, but you were the one that brought up 'consensus' numbers.

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