If you want to get historical, the needs concept got the best of us in 1995.

 

Boselli was the best player available? Wasn't the BAP Warren Sapp instead? In the second, Brian DeMarco was drafted based on a need for two top-notch offensive tackles to make the "bookends" deal. 

 

In between those two picks a "run" on running backs happened. Fearing they'd miss out of selecting one, the Jaguars traded a boat-load of picks. Ron Hill and the rest traded 1995 first round pick (#31), 1995 third round pick (#97), 1995 fourth round pick (#134), 1996 fourth round pick (#113) to Chiefs for the 19th pick.

 

At 1995 #19, the Jaguars selected RB James Stewart - Tennessee - losing four draft picks on a running back fourth or fifth on positional rankings. In essence, they took the best running back available, not the best player available regardless of position.

 

In a humorous side to another ridiculously bad example of needs drafting in this same 1995 NFL draft, the Philadelphia Eagles traded up for DT Mike Mumula. They gave Tampa Bay the number twelve, and two second round picks for the seventh over-all and a third round pick. 

 

The Bucs used the number twelve pick to take Warren Sapp, who many considered to be one the top two or three players available in the first round.

 

The Bucs then packed their newly acquired second round pick with their own second round pick and sent them to the Dallas Cowboys for the twenty-eighth pick of the draft. The Bucs selected FSU OLB Derrick Brooks, who many looked at as the best player in college football that year.

 

If you draft well, you are always selecting the absolutely best football player you possibly can. Regardless of position, you must continually select the players with the most talent.

 

Sapp and Brooks were puzzle pieces for the Tampa Bay organization that went on to win a Super Bowl.

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