Buyer Beware: Luke Kuechly

[Deep_Freeze]

Originally Posted by skinsscalper

With the new collective bargaining agreement, comparing the Kuechley situation to the Curry situation is moot.

With the lack of astronomical contracts given to rookies, the risk is more of a draft position risk than a salary cap implication.

That's the angle that's missing the mark in the posted theory.

Great point.

Before the changes, not only did missing on a draft pick look bad cause you took him so high, it also destroyed your salary cap situation which was the bigger part of the equation.

Now, with the new CBA, taking a risk doesn't have as bad of implications at all as it did in the past. Now Kuechley is probably the lowest risk defensively in the draft, but this same theory holds true for other draft picks, a more risky pick doesn't destroy your team talentwise AND financially anymore like in the past.

[Zaxor]

this Luke kid is my pet cat so if you don't mine my indulgance....I seen him play 3 times this year and posted my OOh's and AAh's about him than... best defensive player I have seen all year did it all and did it well even when a guard or center was on him...now with that said...the job of a DT in a 4-3 is to keep the MLB clean..isn't it... atleast that is what Tom Landry said and he invented the freaken thing...so buyer beware of drafting a great QB if his WR's don't catch the ball...<--- that last statement makes about as much sense as the article did imho.