Interview with Duke

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(01-21-2020, 04:25 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Because you are just remembering the bad picks. And you can count Fisher, but if he hadn't suffered the heart issue, who knows what he would have been.

2019 picks are still to see how they work out, but there are several promising players.

2018- Jessie Bates, Sam Hubbard, Andrew Brown, Auden Tate.

2017- Mixon, Carl Lawson, Ryan Glasgow and everyone's favorite Jake Elliott (he was drafted, so for this conversation he counts)

2016- William Jackson III, Tyler Boyd, Andrew Billings, Clayton Fedj.

2015- admittedly, outside of Uzomah, this draft was a stinker.

So, like I said, the draft is a crapshoot, but don't act like we never draft any good players

Obviously PFF isn't gospel, and it doesn't mean everything, but I decided to make this list out of curiosity.

2019 PFF Grades
Bates: 59.7
Hubbard: 67.1
Brown: 59.5
Tate: 70.5
Mixon: 75.3
Lawson: 55.5
Glasgow: 58.0
Elliott: (I can't see his 2019 grade without a subscription.)
Jackson: 53.7
Boyd: 73.0
Billings: 69.3
Fejedelem: 65.5
Uzomah: 49.4

Once again, not gospel or fact... but it more or less tracks with the eye test that most of the "good players" you listed are pretty mediocre/bad.