I've actually warmed to the pick. If the Raiders had raced up to the podium for Williams, I'd probably still be annoyed, but seeing the Raiders and Washington both pass (Washington with a reach for an O-lineman) does kind of make me think that Williams isn't actually the sure-fire stud he was made out to be, and Caldwell might actually know what he's doing better than some hack poster on a message board does.

 

Of course, that's two years in a row that Caldwell may have reached in the top three, and even though Joeckel was a consensus top-two pick in 2013, he hasn't exactly panned out. My greatest fear for Caldwell at this point is that he ends up drafting like Shack--bad results in the first round, good results everywhere else. Missing on all those first-rounders cost Shack his job, even though he found MJD in round two, and I'm hoping Caldwell's picks pan out well enough for him to not suffer the same fate and set the team back by another few years.

 

I do have more faith in Caldwell's drafting than I ever did Gene's, but that's not exactly a high bar to cross.

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