Seriously?
Okay.
You can look them up for yourself. It should not take you long.
And in fact, if you want, you could spend hours upon hours, scouring every single draft site you could and you would not find it.
Even the most staunch supporter of the pick cannot find a single solitary source that states Anthony Hitchens was chosen where his pick meant value. Instead it means off hand quotes in a chat, citing a Seahawks source, etc.
It still does not refute the reality. He was viewed as a reach. Whether he is or not, is up to him.
Right now, that is what we have from an empirical standpoint. Overall, he was viewed as a reach. Period. Move on.
It is another thing entirely if you want to discount popular opinion.
If you do, then please state who do believe.
Honestly, it seems like whenever the Cowboys reach on a player, it means digging and grasping for validation.
And rarely does it pay off. And don't start with the Frederick thing. He was not projected as a third round/fourth round guy. He was always acknowledged as one of the better center prospects in that draft as far as a year out. He had a bad Combine and the barometer went down. But he was not some unearthed gem that Dallas somehow discovered.
That is the big difference here. He is the LB version of Matt Johnson.
A "clever" pick that apparently some coach had a fancy to.
There is a reason why players get assigned consensus values. The scouts are a rarely heard bunch and they are the ones who feed the mass media draftniks most of their information.
When coaches get involved, which they clearly did here, you have reaches.
