Quote:You don't draft guys early first round to be "rock solid", you draft them to be the All Pros and cornerstones of the team. However, if you make a mistake in the assessment and the guy goes from garbage to being a dependable starter then that's the best you can hope for.

 

I'm just not one to get hung up on where people get drafted. Yeah when you draft somebody that high you expect an All-Pro but I just don't see that happening. So you move past where he was drafted and hope that he can be that "rock solid" LT that allows the team to draft positions elsewhere. The guy can play the next ten years as a quality LT and people would still be unhappy that he was drafted second overall and wasn't a multiple time All-Pro. At some point you just have to move past where the guy was drafted if he's playing well enough to help the team win. At this point I would say Luke is playing well enough to help the team win. 

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