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First round "light" on top picks?

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Difference between 20 and 24 isn't really huge, though granted you're talking within a sample size of 32. Savage considers that enough to call it "light" in his estimation.

I vaguely remember someone suggesting that this year's draft pool isn't great overall but I don't remember where I saw it.

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11 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

I feel like this is said every single year...

There's always chatter about which position groups are deep and which aren't.  I don't remember as many pre-draft comments about overall draft quality.

I do know the general consensus five years out is that the 2013 draft was an absolute s--tshow.

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I don't like the idea of trading away picks pre-draft, even if it is to acquire more.  You just don't know what the draft will do.

Once it's started and you see that perhaps the guys who you really have a first round grade on are gone, sure, then you look to trade back.

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6 hours ago, top dawg said:

This also comes up every year (and perhaps this should be the year to do it): Should we look to trade back and acquire more picks? 

it depends. 

I think that is why you have to look at a draft board in terms to of tiers.  For example, lets say tier 1 is 1-3 players, tier 2 is 4-10, tier 3 is 10-20, and tier 4 is 20-35.  As you move down the draft board the tiers start to become larger.

With us picking at 24 if a tier 2 or 3 player drops you strongly consider taking them.  Maybe a Ridley or James.  If nobody drops and all you have on your board is tier 4 players you strongly consider moving down.  Just moving down from 24 to 30 could get us a late 3rd.  Extra third would be nice, could even use it to move up in the second.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, AU-panther said:

it depends. 

I think that is why you have to look at a draft board in terms to of tiers.  For example, lets say tier 1 is 1-3 players, tier 2 is 4-10, tier 3 is 10-20, and tier 4 is 20-35.  As you move down the draft board the tiers start to become larger.

With us picking at 24 if a tier 2 or 3 player drops you strongly consider taking them.  Maybe a Ridley or James.  If nobody drops and all you have on your board is tier 4 players you strongly consider moving down.  Just moving down from 24 to 30 could get us a late 3rd.  Extra third would be nice, could even use it to move up in the second.

 

 

If Ridley or James is on the board at 24, you take them. For me, all the others that drop can be had for a price. I'll take a later first, extra second and extra third and/or extra fourth depending upon who we're looking at. 

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This is a year where I actually agree with that sentiment.  Though in the past few years, there's been a big chunk of late 1st-3rd rounders that have been great as a counterbalance but I don't see it as much this year.  

This class has me the least excited about a draft in quite some time.  

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