Quote:It's very well possible. His stock is high already and the season is still going on. It's only going up from here and with the pressure being put on with kickers, someone will jump at Roberto to have an "automatic" guy for the next 15 years.

Please, try and convince me that Sebastian Janikowski (80% career on FGs...you can do better with a UDFA) and Mike Nugent (journeyman, 81%, better UDFAs out there) were worth their draft slots. Here are a few guys who went after each in their respective rounds:

 

Janikowski: Chad Pennington, Shaun Alexander, Stockar McDougle, Anthony Becht, Keith Bulluck

 

Nugent: Nick Collins, Roscoe Parrish, Jonathan Babineaux, some dude named Vincent Jackson

 

So, basically, that's a first-round pick and a second-round pick on guys whose career FG% is actually mid-pack on the all-time accuracy list. Meanwhile, the most accurate kicker in NFL history--Dan Bailey--was an undrafted free agent.

 

Seriously, just try and make a convincing case that a GM should ever, ever draft a kicker in rounds one or two, even three or four, when there is virtually always a better player in post-draft free agency, or at the very least a stopgap veteran you can sign on the cheap who'll get you 80%.

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