This should have been our pick

[NAS]

We were all screaming for it too, was so obvious, what was Dan thinking?

 

“Former NC State LB Payton Wilson is on pace to break the Pittsburgh Steelers' single-season tackles record. 

The second-year player's 8.4 tackles per game would total 142.8, which would top James Farrior's 141 from 2003.”

[Navy_football]

Not gonna lie, the first 3 picks in that draft were... confusing. Not necessarily who we picked, but more who we didn't pick and was surprisingly still on the board.

[Donald LaFell]

It’s extremely frustrating when it feels like you are genuinely right as a fan. 

Taking an injured RB in the 2nd was pretty shocking. Every time I shrug my shoulders and say they know more than me but damn. Brooks has to be elite/productive for that decision to make any sense. 

[45catfan]

1 hour ago, NAS said:

We were all screaming for it too, was so obvious, what was Dan thinking?

 

“Former NC State LB Payton Wilson is on pace to break the Pittsburgh Steelers' single-season tackles record. 

The second-year player's 8.4 tackles per game would total 142.8, which would top James Farrior's 141 from 2003.”

LOL, most of us WANTED to draft him, but Dan had a boner for Trevin Wallace, I know I sure as heck wanted Wilson.  He's had injuries during college, that's a red flag, they said.  Then Jonathan Brooks entered the chat...   Make sense of it. 

[kungfoodude]

The injury argument against him was strong but as others have pointed out you chose an injured RB of all things.

Wilson was EXTREMELY CLEARLY a better football player than Wallace outside of injury/health concerns. 

We often seem to whiff on these sort of players(Trey Smith, etc) when we should be making these sort of moves. This is why I railed so much against our FO and their pursuit of RAS/Underwear Olympics champions over great FOOTBALL PLAYERS.

Now with all that being said.......Wilson has started 8 total games in his career. He is technically piling up these stats as a backup player. Had we built our roster better, Wallace might have the benefit of being a backup player racking up stats surrounded by better LB's, as well. Instead he is getting abused game in and game out as a starter before he is ready to be such.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by kungfoodude

[toldozer]

To be fair if we picked him he would have had a career ending injury game one 

[kungfoodude]

20 minutes ago, toldozer said:

To be fair if we picked him he would have had a career ending injury game one 

I mean, seriously, that is our luck.