The concept of drafting football players is easy. Pick the best football players you can possibly pick. It doesn't matter what position they play. You pick the absolute best football players. The only way to ever raise the talent level of your squad to competitive strength is by the continual practice of selecting the best player available regardless of position.

 

Past GMs have been fired because they screwed around thinking they could surgically address pro personnel. Not wanting to upset the egos of players they'd hand-picked themselves, these failed executives lost their jobs protecting lousy, unmotivated talent. 

 

So what if you have an elite offensive tackle? If the best player available is another elite offensive tackle, now you have two and the entire offensive line has become a stronger unit.

 

If there are no elite quarterbacks does it make any sense at all to draft an average one ahead of players with elite talent at other positions?

 

At pick three, we can have a reputedly slack defensive end, a future back-up quarterback, a flame-out college wide receiver that can't run routes, or one of two or three elite-level offensive tackles.

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