I agree with you on BPA. If they want to keep Watson healthy they should keep investing in the OL. Yes, the offense was great with DW4 in the lineup and I would like to do everything possible to keep him healthy and give him the weapons he needs to become a great QB. Unlike last yr where DW4 had to carry the load. He doesn't need to have to carry that kind of load coming off an ACL.
In the NFL, this is fallacious. This isn't MLB or NBA. You have to draft the right guys. It takes ~3 years to know what you've got in a player. Here's the first 5 picks in each draft for the 4 years from 2010 to 2014, with below expectations marked with a red dot and questionable marked with an orange dot. Players get marked for play or injury/limited snaps or if no longer with their drafting team. You can argue a player or two, but generally it's: It's about the players, not just collecting picks.
I can't guess how the board will fall that deep into the draft, and I haven’t looked at TEs yet. You identify talent and acquire it. We have needs at most positions, so you prioritize the positions but then adjust and take what is available. I've always been more of the mind that you use your lower picks to draft into a draft's positional depth -- so if it's a deep CB draft grab one with a lower pick because you're getting a 2nd round value (in a typical year) for a 3rd or 4th round pick. And inversely, I'd be less inclined to fill my bag with later round OTs in a poor OT draft because 3rd and 4th round talent (in a typical year) gets pushed up to the 2nd round because of the talent void in that year's draft and teams forcing need.
NFL teams with most, least 2018 draft capital, and why Browns are in control 1. Houston Texans Expected capital: 59.2 points (4th) Actual capital: 27.6 points (31st) Difference: minus-29.9 points The Texans probably couldn't imagine a world in which they finished with one of the league's worst records in 2017 when they traded their first- and second-round picks to the Browns as part of the Deshaun Watson and Brock Osweilerdeals, but that's exactly why it's dangerous to ship off high draft picks in future seasons. They'll have three third-round selections, with a comp pick and the Seattle third-rounder from the Duane Brown trade coming through, but the Texans will be missing a pair of enormously valuable assets. Was it worth it to acquire Watson? We'll see. Again, it's difficult to imagine the worst-case scenario, but it's also naive to write it off altogether as an impossibility. Watson looked fantastic during his abbreviated rookie campaign, but what if the ACL injury saps his effectiveness? What if the interceptions that snuck up at times during that rookie campaign get worse? What if Houston's inability to field a competent offensive line in front of its young quarterback turns Watson into a frantic mess? If Watson turns into the player he looked like in 2017, the Texans won't regret their deal, even if it came at the huge cost of sending the 25th selection in one draft and the fourth overall pick in another to grab Watson. Given what the 12th pick ended up costing, though, anything short of that will go down as a catastrophic mistake by former general manager Rick Smith. http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-capital-cleveland-browns-most-valuable-picks
Not bad. But would like to see them use SEA #2 next yr and SEA #3 this yr to trade up into round 2 this yr and get any DB, TE, S or OT that slips
Ya I’m up for trading into the 2nd if an OT falls. I think there will be some talented DBs available in the 3rd and don't really like any of the TEs enough to trade up for.
