Why do people always say this when one of these pie in the sky 2nd round picks that Dallas takes just bombs?
The second round should not be a round where you throw the dice on some underachieving slob. Teams that take the proven productive talent left after the first will benefit more often than not.
The 2020 All-Rookie 1st team had eight second rounders out of the twenty-eight (Jawaan Taylor, Sean Bunting, Erik McCoy, Dalton Risner, Miles Sanders, A.J. Brown, Elgton Jenkins, Juan Thornhill). That's more than 25% of the group. And that does not even include other impactful players taken in the round, including D.K. Metcalf, Taylor Rapp, Deebo Samuel and Nasir Adderley. Three of these players plus Thornhill were taken after Hill's pick.