Is it worse for the team to live with a current QB who is average to below average (Henne in this case) and draft an impact player at another spot, or to draft a Quarterback to replace the starter and let those impact players go to another team?

 

I've been thinking about this scenario for a while ever since Dave Caldwell stated "...I'd rather get backlash from that [passing on a Quarterback] than backlash from picking the wrong guy...
'" If you draft a Quarterback, that means that another talented player is going to another team; that ain't rocket science but it speaks to how drafting a lesser talented player does double damage to your roster regardless of which position you are drafting. That double damage is in the form of the guy you drafted can't play as well as the guy who is now on another team.

 

So which is worse? Is it more damaging to draft a guy who almost guarantees impact - for this example, let's say Clowney or Watkins are these impact guys - and have Chad Henne lead the team into September this coming season? Or would it hurt the team more to draft Bridgewater and let these playmakers go somewhere else?

 

The more that I think about it, the more convinced I am that drafting a Quarterback to be "the" guy in the sense that he must make up for so many faults riddled throughout the rest of the roster is the worst choice. If I take that perspective, then I start to evaluate a Quarterback along the same lines as I do any other player; I look at how much talent they add to my roster and I realize that I may be able to add more talent to a slightly less critical position than Quarterback.

 

In a perfect sense this would mean that instead of "building the roster up around the Quarterback to be taken later", it means that I am building my roster strength with every move that I make, even if I don't draft a Quarterback and even when I do. I do build to it when I draft one because I have evaluated him with respect to his talent contribution as compared to who else is available.

 

But the question at the heart of this issue remains; what's the more troublesome scenario? Drafting a bad one, or living with a barely decent one?

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