when was the last time drafting a cornerback top 8 changed a teams fortunes

[ncstatekwi]

A bunch of 'em up in here!!!!

[Lemon]

13 minutes ago, Mistuh Jones said:

Welp this is gonna be my last post of the night. Shut up. How long have we needed a goddamn corner? 9 years ago Chris Gamble retired. Since fugging THEN. Yeah I woulda liked slater here too. But there are other tackles with traits. This was BPA Defensively

Have you not watched the Panthers this past decade? We picked two elite corners, one in the fifth round, Josh Norman, one in the second round, James Bradberry.

[BrizzMachete]

16 minutes ago, CarolinaRideorDie said:

lattimore with saints?

Saints fans hate lattimore lol i thought he was good too but idk 

[Ivan The Awesome]

14 minutes ago, Move the Panthers to Raleigh said:

We always draft defense high, but rarely have an elite D. 

What the hell are you on, They had Top 10 D for several years in early Newton years. Even were #1 for a while in 2015. How is that not Elite? lol wtf.

[Shocker]

He will bust...hard to say that but this guy was amazingly overrated 

[CarolinaRideorDie]

2 minutes ago, t96 said:

He's definitely helped them but I'd argue that 2 other picks in that draft were significantly more important for their recent success than Lattimore -- Ramczyk and Kamara. Also, Williams and Hendrickson were great picks too. That entire draft class from them was just absurd. Honestly, value-wise Lattimore may have been one of their worse picks that draft...

I'm sure the saint's don't regret the Lattimore pick and they did have other impact players but it's not his fault they drafted him in top 10. A shutdown corner is worth a top 10 pick, we're just not sure if Horn can be that for us. 

[Lemon]

To answer the question, I can't think of any. It's actually much more often they outright bust being this highly picked.

[Scott12345]

7 minutes ago, Growl said:

okay bud you got it 

Gettleman cut the giants a good deal

[t96]

2 minutes ago, CarolinaRideorDie said:

I'm sure the saint's don't regret the Lattimore pick and they did have other impact players but it's not his fault they drafted him in top 10. A shutdown corner is worth a top 10 pick, we're just not sure if Horn can be that for us. 

I agree. I think Lattimore was a much better prospect coming out than Horn though, he could've easily gone top 5.

[TrevorLaurenceTime22]

24 minutes ago, electro's horse said:

revis probably

Revis was 14th Selected by the Jets with OUR selection, we later used the picks we got on Beason and Kalil.

[Stumpy]

4 minutes ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

What the hell are you on, They had Top 10 D for several years in early Newton years. Even were #1 for a while in 2015. How is that not Elite? lol wtf.

10 out of 32 does not equal elite. 

[t96]

5 minutes ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

What the hell are you on, They had Top 10 D for several years in early Newton years. Even were #1 for a while in 2015. How is that not Elite? lol wtf.

Yeah 2013 was a historic defense, that front 7 with prime Hardy and before the Pats ruined CJ's career with a dirty leg whip... Luke and TD at their absolute best. That was about as elite of a D as you can get, up there with the Seahawks that year, Broncos 2015, etc.

[Growl]

it just fascinates me that they can look at the history of the league and see all these embarrassing franchises that passed on hall of fame QBs because they had some huckster “that they really feel confident about” 
 

history alone should’ve warned them off this kind of move

their draft strategy actually centers around a guy who has been the quite literal worst QB in the league for three seasons
 

it’s hard to envision the current staff being the answer 

Edited April 30, 2021 by Growl

[t96]

1 minute ago, Stumpy said:

10 out of 32 does not equal elite. 

2013 we were a very close 2nd to Seattle's historic D. 2013 was an elite D for sure.