Running Back next draft

kskboys said:
Not drafting for needs keeps you at .500. Everything has to be considered when drafting, including needs.

Taco was BPA, btw, and was rated over Watt by most scouts. There actually is no such thing as BPA, because rating players is not just a matter of one over another. There are a ton of factors involved.
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You fill needs in free agency. You aquire the best talent in the draft. Reaching for need is what keeps you at 500. Anyone with a lick of sense didn't have Taco over Watt. Scheme fit excuse doesn't fly. That can be resolved in training camp.
BPA is a real thing.
 
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Free agency is what gets you into cap space purgatory when you over pay . Drafting is where you get to g keep a player for four years at a reasonable salary .
 
RonWashington said:
Free agency is what gets you into cap space purgatory when you over pay . Drafting is where you get to g keep a player for four years at a reasonable salary .
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Overpaying wins you Super Bowls now. See the Rams .What you need is a GM that can manipulate the salary cap.
 
Hardline said:
Overpaying wins you Super Bowls now. See the Rams .What you need is a GM that can manipulate the salary cap.
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Haven’t teams like NE the recent SB winning Eagles the Packers when they were winning teams like that drafted well and built solid foundations ? I suggest the talent is on this roster right now to make a deep playoff run without throwing draft picks out the window buying other teams discards .
 
RonWashington said:
Read the post I said “ I understand why Dallas didn’t trade up “ to get Walker , Next season Pollard is going to want to get paid and Zeke is already expensive . On the draft forum I had a suggestion for Dallas around third round next April . I suspect what will happen is Pollard will get paid royally by Jerry and Zeke either takes a substantial cut in pay or is exited .
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If I had my druthers I’d pay Pollard (I don’t think he gets anywhere near what Zeke did), release Zeke and draft a quality back somewhere in rounds 2-4.
 
KDM256 said:
Jahmyr Gibbs is the best running back in college this year and it's not even close. Definitely should be onthe radar for Dallas in this draft. Speed, vision and some of the best footwork I've haven't seen in a long time at the collegiate level.

Alvin Kamara clone

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:hammer:
 
Hardline said:
If you are picking in the bottom of the 1st round and Bijan Robinson is on the board you seriously consider taking him. He is a game changer.
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I don’t…I’d hope we wouldn’t use a premium pick on a RB and that we’ve learned our lesson.

With OL play and a solid scheme anyone can have success. Look around the league…next man up in Carolina, Chicago, SF, Etc and of course Pollard.

Spending a 1st on a RB is awful roster management IMO.
 
CalPolyTechnique said:
If I had my druthers I’d pay Pollard (I don’t think he gets anywhere near what Zeke did), release Zeke and draft a quality back somewhere in rounds 2-4.
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That sounds like a plan . Zeke at a much lower pay could be Pollards back up in 2023 he’s a great blocking back can help you grind out tough yardage but I could see a scenario of what happened to Emmitt at the end in Dallas .
 
RonWashington said:
That sounds like a plan . Zeke at a much lower pay could be Pollards back up in 2023 he’s a great blocking back can help you grind out tough yardage but I could see a scenario of what happened to Emmitt at the end in Dallas .
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But how much? I love Pollard and think he’s one of our best playmakers…but can you pay him 5/6 mil a year?

Maybe but that’d be my ceiling.
 
Hardline said:
You fill needs in free agency. You aquire the best talent in the draft. Reaching for need is what keeps you at 500. Anyone with a lick of sense didn't have Taco over Watt. Scheme fit excuse doesn't fly. That can be resolved in training camp.
BPA is a real thing.
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Most did. Your argument is incorrect!!!

If you ignore needs in the draft, you will stay around .500.
 
KDM256 said:
Gibbs at G.T. poetry in motion
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i love gibbs. i get flashes of a faster but less violent mbIII when i watch him just cause he's always shifting and is really good and changing direction and keeping balance through contact.
 
I'm really struggling with trying to draft any RB in the first two days of the draft. There's so many day three guys you can grab that would do the trick for 3-4 years at a cheap price.
 
I could justify a second round pick on a back if he's a total stud. I doubt the Browns or Colts regret picking Nick Chubb or Jonathan Taylor. Breece Hall was looking like another one of those dudes, but his ACL injury is a reminder of why you don't put a lot of eggs in the RB basket.

Bijan Robinson is worth a 2nd this year, and I could see you justifying a 2nd for Devon Achane if you run a Shanahan wide-zone type of offense. Achane would go absolutely nuclear in Miami, for example.

Other than that, take whoever falls. It's easy to find starters as late as round 4. And if you just want a guy to bang inside for a few carries every week, eg Zeke, you can literally sign him off the street.

And as far as Kenneth Walker... he's kind of Pollard-ish in that he offers zero as a receiver and pass blocker, he's just a pure runner. A second rounder for that is rich for a limited RB, but the Carroll Seahawks still like to line up under center and pound out 25 inside-zone runs a week. They were definitely a team that could maximize him. I don't think the Cowboys were a fit.
 
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Sign Pollard and draft Achane. I like lightning and lightning more than lightning and thunder.
 
As fun as Achane is we’re going to need someone that is at least sufficient in pass pro. Can’t have 2 RBs that are below average.
 
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