(03-28-2024, 09:32 AM)HardcoreMoJagFan Wrote:

(03-28-2024, 09:26 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: My main issue here is the lack of spending a single top 100 pick on a WR but spending 2 top 100 picks on running backs. With a young QB, a smart GM would also have a young WR or two to grow with the QB.

Not if in three seasons.  He's had 12 picks.  He couldn't even select one in each period.  When you are doing BAP you can't guarantee in three seasons and 12 picks you'll fit one of those in there.   

The whole problem is the small sample size.  You can say drafting receiver should be important but not if the third round receivers you didn't like as much as tank.  Or Brenton or whatever.

Agreed. 12 selections is a little too small to judge him. It should also be noted what he did during free agency prior to making some of those decisions. Have to remember, at the initial time of Christian Kirk's signing, MANY pundits, nationally, locally and even on this board questioned the dollar amount thrown at him. 

By all accounts, he got it right with Kirk. He also seemed to have got it right with Marvin Jones and Zay Jones earlier on as well. Injuries derailed both of those guys last year, so, you could make an argument that he could justify going WR earlier than he usually would in a deep WR class. (Meeting with Brian Thomas Jr., Rome Odunze & Malik Nabers would allude to this, as well as being interested at Florida's Pro-Day personally until it was made known that Pearsall would not be participating).

There's also the signing of Gabe Davis, the trade that he made for Calvin Ridley, etc. I can understand why WR is all of a sudden lower on his pecking order on draft weekend when he's invested, again, the 4th highest amount of cap space already at this position group. That's a fact. 

Also, I don't think he got it wrong with Lawrence, Etienne, Campbell, Little, Cisco, Walker & Lloyd. There's been a few head scratchers here and there. The biggest ones being Muma, Strange & Bigsby though. So, out of his 12 selections within the top 100. 3 of them were highly questionable. You win some. You lose some. 

However, again, looking at the totality of the off season in each free agency class leading up to said drafts here? It makes sense on paper to me.

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