What is your draft grade

What is your draft grade

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Haven't watched Tommy Akingbesote yet, so maybe they drafted a 1st round value in the 7th round and that would change my rating. I'm going with a B+ for now. I'm a huge fan of what they did with the first three picks and that's the most important part, but the day 3 picks were a lot more hit and miss for me.
 
cnuball21 said:
C+

Some nice picks in the middle but you just can’t reach for need at a low value position at 12. Also trading up for a LBr with bad instincts was almost equally as bad.
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I watched James at Florida and he’s a decent player.

He is only 20, has three years of starting experience. He was also a team captain.

I see the upside ahead potential.

But man. I was gutted to trade up and pass on Bassa
 
B-
I don’t see much of a plan. Got some good players early but ignored the glaring needs except a very good but injured CB in the third. Refusal to address the DL is bizarre. They continue to lose badly to good teams because they can’t stop the run and year after year they ignore it. And trading up for a linebacker when better players including linebackers were available is just so Dallas-like. Almost like they want to show off that they are smarter than everyone else.
 
C+.
  • Got some quality players..Booker, Ezeiruaka, Blue, Toia...who can help immediately.
  • Got some players who likely won't help this year...Revel, James, Cornelius
  • Some guys who probably won't make the team. Tommy. Mafah.
  • Almost completely ignored the most important needs on this team--RB, WR, Run defense.
  • Is the team significantly better this year? No. Some improvement but that's just because we had basically nobody on our roster.
  • The draft is a long term investment, I get it. So it really hinges on whether Revel ends up being the guy at CB. I don't like drafting an injured guy who can't play yet to replace an injured guy who can't play yet.
Biggest win: Getting Ezeiruaku will improve our defense because we will really get after the QB.
Biggest loss: The offense really isn't that much different. Blue adds some speed, as a role player, but if we don't trade for a starter, we're looking at Javonte Williams being the lead back, who was just as bad as Zeke. We're heading into the season with Mingo as #2, and that's a disaster.
 
B+ They got good players early on even if they weren't quite at the positions I was hoping for. The reality is this team has to rebuild, and it is going to take more than one draft to do it. I think it went a bit off the rails after the Blue pick, they had a chance to add another solid RB in Martinez, Gordon, Croskey-Merrit but moved up to take a slow LB instead but hard to get too mad about late 5th round picks.
 
Carson said:
I watched James at Florida and he’s a decent player.

He is only 20, has three years of starting experience. He was also a team captain.

I see the upside ahead potential.

But man. I was gutted to trade up and pass on Bassa
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Gutted by a 5th round pick?
 
B-

The grade is more so for their general approach to the draft.
  • IMO, they past up better talent in the 5th taking Blue with Brashard Smith and DJ Giddens still on the board.
  • Packaged picks to take a middling undersized LB (Shemar James). You do not want a LB described as having “Has severely (sic) tackling reliability issues too.”
  • Didn’t address WR.
  • I would have liked to see them package up 6th/7th rounders to move up.
I appreciate teams that target players and aggressively go after their guy ala the Lions. We hoard our Day 3 picks like their Top 10 picks.

We also did some nice things in the draft so it’s not all doom and gloom.
 
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I feel good about Booker and Ez. Hopeful about Revel. Hate the trading of 4th round picks for lottery tickets which are players Cowboy scouts liked that didnt and most likely wont pan out. I really dont care for having so many picks between rounds 5 and 7 and not feeling great about most of em. Blue should produce and be a fun watch. Like the Toia pick and 25 to 30 productive snaps a game from him would be huge. Wasnt overly impressed with the UDFAs but watch the LB from Syracuse.
 
C+-as I have said in my post, didn't do enough to help our run defense and left a huge hole at WR. Did like a few selections, but overall don't think the team has improved enough. Really hate taking a Guard at 12, but understand their thinking, but I would of either targeted DT or WR.
 
I went B+.

I will say Jerry has to STOP trading our 4th round picks in season for players that can’t play. I’m fine with it if you get me a starter. For the past two drafts the run on RB’s have been in the 4th and it’s killing us….
 
Cowboyny said:
C+-as I have said in my post, didn't do enough to help our run defense and left a huge hole at WR. Did like a few selections, but overall don't think the team has improved enough. Really hate taking a Guard at 12, but understand their thinking, but I would of either targeted DT or WR.
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Your a good poster,however they only had enough pic to handle so much.Stephen said this a month ago. One more draft to finish if they can
 
Centex said:
B-
I don’t see much of a plan. Got some good players early but ignored the glaring needs except a very good but injured CB in the third. Refusal to address the DL is bizarre. They continue to lose badly to good teams because they can’t stop the run and year after year they ignore it. And trading up for a linebacker when better players including linebackers were available is just so Dallas-like. Almost like they want to show off that they are smarter than everyon
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My one disagreement is no plan that's exactly what they were talking about. I'm not sure they did it but they did express building a team not collecting talent
 
I have a slightly different take on the draft which many people here will not like

In the end, what is the objective of the draft? Acquire talent to make the team better

So, yes, draft is about talent acquisition but there is a reason teams have tiers, because need’ has to factor in somewhat

In isolation, i think we had a very very good draft. The players in the top rounds have the potential to be really really good. My problems are below

Booker: very good player, not worth #12. Wr dont have a LT or a RT and we are loading up on OGs. Not going to “bully” anybody if our LT and RT are weak links. The only way this pick makes any sense is if we plan to move Smith to LT. Otherwise it would have been way better to move down to 25 and take Simmons

EZ: very very good player and talent. Great for a team that has a real DE opposite him. If EZ and Parsons are the 2 DEs on the field with Mazi and Osa on 2nd or 3rd and 5-7, as the opposing OC, im running at them everyday if im a good run team like Pilly or GB or Detroit or SF. So, EZ can spell Parsons but at least this year and probably next few years he and Micah will be on the field together very little unless Micah lines up at LB

Revel: great pick if he comes back healthy

Blue: lot of potential but not a 3 down RB. If hes on the field, the defense knows its a pass play most likely. If you run him a lot you will injure him or wear him down

More dart throwing at 1T DT

No #2 WR
No real 1T DT
No true RB

Good players? Yes

This is the kind if draft that can be great for a team that is active in FA
Great draft for this team? Not really
 
that trade up for a tiny LB put a damper on day 3 but cowboys always do this- draft a guy specifically for ST.
 
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