Grade the current (last 5 years) FO

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(Yesterday, 05:49 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: It is silly to dismiss any picks and assume any team would do it. Chase was not a #1 overall pick, he was taken and the debte was Sewell or Chase. Both have been great, but we look a lot different with Sewell versus Chase. Tee was simply a great pick in hindset and very silly to say he was anything other than a great pick. Logan Wilson was also a great pick, Pratt was not bad.

You also don't give any credit for Bengals when they had to draft 31st in round one or give them a break as the further you get frm pick 1, the bigger the chance to whiff not only in round 1 but later rounds as teams have the chance to steal (draft) your guy when they are in front of you.

I do agree, we need better production from the picks the past 3 years.

It is silly to think that Chase wasn't a slam dunk pick (see, I can do it too).
Him or the tackle would have been easy picks for any FO.

Higgins was obviously the best player available at the top of the 2nd round. You could make an argument for maybe one or two other players but I wouldn't make that argument.

Yes, give them credit for not screwing up these two picks but they were easy picks from their draft positioning, which was earned from the FO's failure the past couple years.

In the end if you look at the draft overall and you want to give them credit for their few hits then you need to also look at their failures and overall there are a lot more failures than successes. The draft has been average at best the past 5 years (unless we see stars emerge in the secondary, DT, G/T, and Edge).