I am firmly build the trenches guy, but will yield to what our "brain trusts" thinks despite what I think. The fact is somehow, some way they got this right and the top tier RB's in the league at present all came from round 1 and 2.

As we discuss this we do have to look at the "team" that was drafting. Shad, his son Tony, Baalkie and Urban Meyer. Now at this time of his tenure our owner was all enamored with Urban. Urban blew into town in a somewhat dictatorial mode andas we all later found out Urban's ego was larger than the State of Florida. I have to think this was somewhat of an Urban preference as ETN was a teammate of TL in college. Also, Urban's football past was pre NIL college football and ETN fits the profile Urban was comfortable with. Remember he did remark he was surprised he couldn't recruit players (free agents) like college. Even if Baalkie was wanting another player he would have been outflanked politically on this.

I know most is my opinion of what occurred but probably not too far off. The next draft with Doug as a partner is somewhat more in line with what we all think. That is a topic for another string...lol

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