12-18-2019, 01:10 PM
(12-18-2019, 12:52 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: I always crack up when I see these mocks, not because they are unrealistic, but because most of the national draftniks seem to forget the unwritten rules of draft day:
1. Pass rushers always go higher than they should
2. Corners tend to go higher than they should after the first couple
3. If anyone wants/needs a QB, they will trade up to get them in the top 5-12
So, 8 WRs? not a chance
I wouldn't really say any of your unwritten rules are actually rules at all but small recent samples.
- This pass rushing class, especially on the edge, is not spectacular. There are a lot of good rushers but not a lot of great rushers. The combine may produce one or two more but this is not the class to be looking for a superstar rusher.
- Last year Deandre Baker was the first CB off the board...at 30. Now that was a bad cornerback class and this one is better but I think the cornerback distribution in round one is reasonable here, maybe even a tad heavy.
- We had one year where that happened, couple years ago with Watson/Mahomes, and then kind of with Allen when we let them move up and we got Glenn. Outside of that the MO was often to wait and see on QB's falling. Last year all we heard was you got to go get Haskins, but he fell to 16 for the Redskins. Then on the back side of the draft it was any minute someone will come springing up to get Drew Lock but he ended up falling all the way to pick 42.
All this said, anyone can criticize an industry that success is defined at a rate lower than average major league baseball batting averages. In a lot of these cases at this point they are placing the best players versus taking desperate need of teams into account. That will change in a lot of post FA mocks.
