Quote:Shorts and Proz both played extensively in 2012. The analysis was the number of games played in 2014; the contributions of the 2011 and 2012 drafts would have looked good if done after the 2012 season. Rackley may have been a joke, but he was a joke who started, which was my point. He's in the same category as Josh Evans. Just because a rookie or first year vet contributes on the graph doesn't mean he's any good.


 

The only difference here is that the 3 and 4 year old drafts would have looked better from a 2012 perspective, but Gene Smith wasn't going to cut his own draft picks. The change at GM enabled the Jags to part with a lot of the 20111/2012 draft picks.

 

Evans and Rackly are good comparisons re: rookie production (or lack thereof)  - except that Evans was a sixth rounder.  Rackley was a third round pick.  Gratz would compare better  --  but he was much better at his position than Racily was at his. 

 

Caldwell's 2014 draft class may be young to evaluate - but Robinson, Hurns, Linder, Telvin and even Bortles all make it seem silly to compare Caldwell's rookie contributors to Gene's.  Just my opinion.  Seems clear to me that the rookies contributing under the current GM are of better quality than the few who did anything of note under Gene's tenure except maybe J Blackmon. 

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