10-28-2015, 01:59 PM
(10-27-2015, 07:02 PM)fredtoast Wrote: First Round
David Pollack '05....Looked like a solid starter but not a first round star.
Keith Rivers '08.....WHIFF
Second Round
Odell Thurman '05....Looked like potential star, but had more red flags than almost any player in draft history....WHIFF
Ray Maualuga '09.....Not as bad as many people here claim, but did not live up to being the #38 pick in the draft.
Third Round
Caleb Miller '04..........WHIFF
Landon Johnson '04....Started early in his career due to guys in front of him getting hurt. Eventually developed into a decent starter.
Ahmad Brooks '06......WHIFF
Dontay Moch '11........WHIFF
Paul Dawson '15.........No Grade. Too early.
Fourth Round
Roddrick Muckelroy '10....WHIFF
Sean Porter '13...............WHIFF
Others
Khalid Abdullah (5th) '03.....WHIFF
A.J. Nicholson (5th) '06.......WHIFF
Angelo Craig (7th) '08.........WHIFF
Marquise Flowers (6th) '14...WHIFF
I will not count Pollack as a whiff, but even giving Marvin the benefit of the doubt on that one his record at drafting linebackers is abysmal.
When he first got here he took small fast linebackers (Abdullah, Johnson, Miller). Landon Johnson claimed that by the end of his rookies season when he was starting at MLB he weighed less than 220. Later in his career he added weight and played some decent LB for us. But other than Johnson, Maualuga and Rivers were the only ones who started more than one season.
Let that sink in for a minute. In a decade plus 3 years of drafting college players the best LBs Marvin has ever taken were Landon Johnson, Keith Rivers, and Ray Maualuga. And Rivers was the #9 overall pick in the draft.
Right now I am just trying to be objective and not judge Dawson based on Marvin's past record of drafting LBs.
No way you can really judge the 2 first round picks.... because of injuries,, what I think it says more is that they don;t seem to value LB's as high picks and have used a few free agents to be starters.
