Kiper Big Board/Position Rankings 3/30/21

[Dalmations202]

So do you draft the best player or the player that is best for the team?

 

[MarkP88]

Now, if the draft doesn't fall that way, can we ditch this BPA farce? No such thing, every team has a position board based on their needs. Happens in every draft and will happen in this one. Players fall because teams pass them by addressing a need.

Few teams had Lamb on their big board outside the top 15 and many had him in the top 10. Where did he get picked? Why? Because BPA is a creation of fans, not NFL GM's.

Be a GM and go BPA and explain to your owner that you didn't fix his defense but you get a swell WR. The only ones that can go BPA have multiple needs.

The Cowboys need D players and OL, as long as they don't go skill position, they're good for BPA.

Er...what? I don't think this is true at all.

The draft is about one thing - acquiring talent. Talent should never be subservient to need.

 

[JD_KaPow]

Now, if the draft doesn't fall that way, can we ditch this BPA farce? No such thing, every team has a position board based on their needs. Happens in every draft and will happen in this one. Players fall because teams pass them by addressing a need.

Few teams had Lamb on their big board outside the top 15 and many had him in the top 10. Where did he get picked? Why? Because BPA is a creation of fans, not NFL GM's.

Be a GM and go BPA and explain to your owner that you didn't fix his defense but you get a swell WR. The only ones that can go BPA have multiple needs.

The Cowboys need D players and OL, as long as they don't go skill position, they're good for BPA.

You have an unstated assumption in there that GMs are right about this. More precisely, that GMs pass up talent for need because it's the right thing to do for the football team. There's no reason to believe this to be true. GMs make the choices they do because they want to keep their jobs. Getting the best player for the team is part of that, but so is keeping the owner and media off your back, and the owner and media really hate unconventional moves. The media hates them because they're ultra-conservative idiots, and the owner hates them because the owner hates bad press.

What do we know about the NFL and the draft?

• The further you go down your draft board, the higher likelihood a player will bust.
• It's very hard to predict your team needs, even one year out. You don't know who will break out, who will break down, etc..
• One rookie isn't making or breaking your team's season. Period.
• First-round picks are overvalued, second-round picks are undervalued. (GMs and scouts are much more sure of themselves than they should be.)

If Pitts is there at ten and they don't either (a) take him or (b) accept an above-chart-value trade, they're making a mistake. Unless they simply don't have him rated as high as everyone else does, in which case they should stick to their board. But I consider that pretty unlikely.

Yes, of course there are exceptions (99% of them involve QBs), but they're not relevant here.

 

[Risen Star]

I'd like more compliments of Mel before we wrap up this thread.

 

[Risen Star]

 

[Scotman]

His name alone should rocket him up the boards.

 

[tyke1doe]

He doesn't even have Eric (Mr. 4.3) Stokes on his board. Or did I miss him?

 

[baltcowboy]

He plays at a highly valued position, WR is also important, but you can find one later, not an elite Tackle.

I am done with mocks. Todd McShay has Penai Sewell falling out of the top 10 and the Cowboys drafting Horne instead of Sewell. That makes no sense. How the hell did Sewell fall from the number 2 prospect to put of the top 10 without playing a snap in 2020.

 

[Cowboyny]

I am done with mocks. Todd McShay has Penai Sewell falling out of the top 10 and the Cowboys drafting Horne instead of Sewell. That makes no sense. How the hell did Sewell fall from the number 2 prospect to put of the top 10 without playing a snap in 2020.

I could see Sewell outside the top 5, but outside the top 10 isn't happening.

 

[baltcowboy]

I could see Sewell outside the top 5, but outside the top 10 isn't happening.

I saw on another post some poster was comparing Slater to Martin. Well I got a better comparison. Sewell to Tyron Smith. We cannot pass up a possible Hall of Famer.

 

[Cowboyny]

I saw on another post some poster was comparing Slater to Martin. Well I got a better comparison. Sewell to Tyron Smith. We cannot pass up a possible Hall of Famer.

Let's hold off of comparing Sewell to a hall of famer. He is a legitimate blue chip prospect that should come off the board right after the QB run.