Interesting stat showing which teams value the draft

[BengalChris]

(02-10-2016, 03:40 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: It depends on what the team got for all those picks they traded away and the quality of the starters.

You can't judge a draft solely on how many "starters" came out of them. That's a very Mike Brown way of looking at it.

For example, Tom Brady as a 6th rounder was possibly the best draft pick ever. Jerome Simpson wasn't a good draft pick, but he did start.

I'm with ya.

I'm more impressed when a team finds good starters in the later rounds than those who only seem to hit in the first two. The Bengals have had their share of later round starters, like Geno Atkins and George Iloka. So have the other good teams in the league.

On the flip side, there are picks like Devon Still and Margus Hunt (both 2nd rounders by the Bengals) who make us all go bonkers cause the team seems to keep them longer than their value dictates. We've had some misses on the DL lately.

Some teams, like those Browns, have a hard time finding good starters anywhere in the draft, but more specifically in the 1st round.

Some teams have traded away picks and the results vary, but some trades have netted a team a much better starter than they'd likely have been able to draft at that spot. For example, Arizona traded for Palmer, the Bengals traded for Reggie Nelson. Those were well traded picks.