(04-19-2019, 03:42 PM)Dewboy01 Wrote:

(04-19-2019, 03:25 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: You trying to tell me every team in the league don't regret passing on Ray Lewis, Tom Brady, Ed Redd etc. just because teams didn't have them as elite cant miss prospects?  You have a redraft and they will all go early.  If Hockenson turns out to be elite like most think, it's a good pick.  You don't take Hockenson unless you think he will be elite.

Your last sentence is completely accurate - you don't take Hockenson unless you think he will be elite - Obviously not a single NFL team thought Gates, Kelce, Kittle, Ertz, Gronk, Graham, Witten were going to be elite, otherwise they would have been selected in the 1st round. Your argument is disingenuous in that you can go back to every draft and find players that outperformed where they were selected - but that has nothing to do with who we select in the 1st round because you could do that same thing for every position, not just TE.  You make the selection based on who you think will become elite (especially if you're picking as high as we are) not on who you might have "missed" in previous years.  By using your argument, I can go back and find Oline and Dline players that were selected later than the 1st round and use that to somehow justify taking those positions early - because every team "regrets" not taking those players.....

Exactly, that's why I named players from other positions.  If you take Hockenson and he becomes an All Pro it was a good pick.  If he becomes a great TE that also means he probably made the QB better which is key.  Just because TEs drafted high in the past were busta doesn't mean Hockenson will.  And just because in the past teams got All Pros in the mid rounds doesn't mean you can get one this year.  Every year is different but we should find out in less than a week what happens

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