Peppers, Gross, Beason the best picks of the decade....

[SorthNarolina]

It was a little difficult to word the title correctly I'm getting quite tired...

But pretty much I bought one of those crappy draft mags because I'm a sucker. It was the pro-football-weekly one.

They had an article rating the best picks of the decade by where they were drafted.

Peppers was the best #2, Gross was the best #8, and Beason the best #25.

The also ranked the worst, so Rashard Anderson showed up.

Peppers won because the most recent #2s haven't had time to put together a more impressive career.

Gross and Beason won pretty much due to weak competition. But they are pretty good too.

I guess it shows well on Hurney. Kind of an odd ranking.

[antame]

Mike Minter, Ryan Kalil...

Then you have Steve Smith, pretty good pick.

[Brooklyn Bully]

I'm sure most any team in the NFL can come up with three great picks in ten years. It says nothing about Hurney.

[Stumpy]

If I am not mistaken, the magazine's list was for the whole league.

[Urrymonster]

I am guessing that you mean Peppers was the best #2 pick, Gross the best #8 pick and Beason the best #25 pick.

So it's not a reflection of how good we are at picking, just at those particular spots who has turned out to be the best player.

[Catalyst]

Hurney does have as good a 1st round record as any GM in football. Even if you consider the Everette Brown trade, even the closest competitor (Ozzie Newsome) took Kyle Boller.

2002: Peppers

2003: Gross

2004: Gamble

2005: Thomas Davis

2006: DeAngelo Williams

2007: Beason

2008: Jonathan Stewart, Jeff Otah

2009: Traded for Otah

2010: Traded for Everette Brown

I mean... it doesn't get much better. There's not a team in football who has had that kind of run on 1st round picks since '02 outside of Baltimore and even then it's close.

[iamcline]

Mike Minter, Ryan Kalil...

Then you have Steve Smith, pretty good pick.

I haven't read the article but I believe it is focussing on first round picks....at least that is as far as I can tell.

Also Minter and Kalil were second round picks while Steve Smith was a third.

...and Hurney didn't draft Steve Smith nor Mike Minter and Minter was drafted in the late 90s.

[CatMan72]

Hurney does have as good a 1st round record as any GM in football. Even if you consider the Everette Brown trade, even the closest competitor (Ozzie Newsome) took Kyle Boller.

2002: Peppers

2003: Gross

2004: Gamble

2005: Thomas Davis

2006: DeAngelo Williams

2007: Beason

2008: Jonathan Stewart, Jeff Otah

2009: Traded for Otah

2010: Traded for Everette Brown

I mean... it doesn't get much better. There's not a team in football who has had that kind of run on 1st round picks since '02 outside of Baltimore and even then it's close.

Agree, other GM's in the league would kill to have an 8 year draft history that reads like this and right now Brown looks like the only blemish but there's still time for him to come around.

[SorthNarolina]

I'm sure most any team in the NFL can come up with three great picks in ten years. It says nothing about Hurney.

I guess 9 great 1st rounders in 10 years would say more?

[SorthNarolina]

I'm sure if everybody quite understands the concept of the article.

Julius Peppers competition would be guys like Ndamokung Suh and Calvin Johnson. They could be better but they haven't had time to put together good careers. Lavvar Arrington is the only guy who had a long career but he wasn't very distinguished.

Jon Beason was competeting against crap I think the most impressive 25th pick in 10 years other than him was santonio holmes. Gross didn't have much better.

So it's more just an fun concept for an article it doesn't hold the greatest weight but i guess it highlight's hurney's great 1st round success.

[jtm]

This just confirms what I have been saying - the Panthers historically draft very well. No one is perfect and unfortunately we are paying for a couple bad picks as of recent (Brown, Edwards). This in my opinion happened because the Panthers briefly went away from drafting for need over best player available. BPA is not very popular with the fans but has been very effective for the Panthers.

[CatMan72]

Which is why I've come to the conclusion that we're going to end taking Patrick Peterson if we draft with the #1 overall pick... he's the most sure-fire prospect in this draft class.

[KaseKlosed]

If we Get Cam Newton its going to be a JR call, not Hurney, Hurney drafts QBs like Tony Pike and Jimmy Clausen lol