Not Necessarily Panthers Related but....

[Jon Snow]

5 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Well, one generally assumes based on round that a player is "worth" more based soley on investment. So, this controls for the rank in each position group or whatever other things that don't relate to where they are selected.

I know that it's a long held assumption by fans and teams but to me that's been proven to not be the case. It's more about evaluation or more specifically whose doing the evaluation in my estimation. Thats where overdraft and undrafted comes into play. That skews the data to where you aren't getting what you are really looking for. 

[Jon Snow]

10 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

I think you do change criteria based on round, TBH. The expectations should differ.

Why would you lower your standards? If you all you want is a  inferior qb that is already struggling in college just pick up an udfa. There's no reason to draft that type of qb in any round because there's hundreds of them. You are looking for someone overlooked by everyone on probably goes to a small school with little to know national coverage. Thats the type of guys you're looking at on day 3. Some drafts there isn't any so the numbers per round are not the same. An overwhelming majority of qbs are taken in the 1st round so the bust numbers should be higher or the time in the league will be longer. Teams will always give a 1st round pick more time to get it or will get more chances with other teams because of where he was picked alone. Im not sure how you factor that in.

[kungfoodude]

17 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Why would you lower your standards? If you all you want is a  inferior qb that is already struggling in college just pick up an udfa. There's no reason to draft that type of qb in any round because there's hundreds of them. You are looking for someone overlooked by everyone on probably goes to a small school with little to know national coverage. Thats the type of guys you're looking at on day 3. Some drafts there isn't any so the numbers per round are not the same. An overwhelming majority of qbs are taken in the 1st round so the bust numbers should be higher or the time in the league will be longer. Teams will always give a 1st round pick more time to get it or will get more chances with other teams because of where he was picked alone. Im not sure how you factor that in.

You lower your standards based on investment. A 6th or 7th round investment is massively lower than. 1st or 2nd.

If that wasn't the case, why would it matter if Burns was offered at a two 1st's and a 2nd instead of what we got for him?