Wasn't a fan. With draft grades!

[Benton]

(05-01-2017, 04:02 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: A poll of 16 NFL scouts had 6 saying that Ross was the top WR among the "big 3" (there was a huge drop off in talent level after that). That was more than both Davis and Williams, who went before Ross. Many mocks had Ross going to the Bengals at 9, and some of the players that many thought were better prospects than Ross fell much further than anyone thought they would.

Derek Barnett went 14th
Malik Hooker went 15th
Jonathan Allen went 17th
OJ Howard went 19th
Taco Charlton went 28th
Reuben Foster went 31st

Were these players really better than Ross...considering what scouts said about him? Or were these players that slipped well past our pick worse than what we thought? 

I think the weak crop of OL, QB & WR resulted in an early panic mode for some teams. In a normal year, even with a weaker-than-usual QB group, Trubisky doesn't go 2 and Maholmes 10. I was surprised Davis went 5, I didn't think he was that close to Williams. To me, there weren't a lot of safe offensive picks in the first round and Trubisky, Maholmes and Davis — along with Ross — wouldn't have happened in a normal year. Hooker, Allen and Barnett were pretty all pretty surprising in that they're probably safer picks and went after some offensive gambles.