2021 NFL Draft Thread
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Natural Born Sinners
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WR was not a need right now.
I didnt love the Toney pick. But this is how I see it. Clearly this team had WR as a top priority in this draft and they were gonna take D. SMITH if he was on board. I didn't want a WR 1st Rd. But I'll take Toney and those extra picks over D. Smith and no picks. Now let's go get at least one OL in 2nd or 3rd!
Natural Born Sinners
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Giants WR STRUGGLED to get separation last year and signing Golladay did not address that. He not that type of WR. Like I said..I'll take Toney and that 1st rd next year, in case we need to get a QB. Then D. Smith and no picks
StringerBell
OG
Yea, it's when staffs really dig in with their scouting. Teams should be coming out with starters in these rounds (today) or it's a failure
Natural Born Sinners
Active Member
Absolutely. 1st rd picks, especially top 10 are usually no brainers for the most part. This is where scouting and front offices set themselves apart from each other...
Disanthrope
Inconvenient truth + Necessary evil
Haven't watched. Did anything like this happen again?
Dwayne
Not Like Us
StringerBell
OG
Dwayne
Not Like Us
Loser: Limited-Attention-Span Jon Gruden
The NFL draft features NFL teams drafting former college football players. This presents an annual challenge, because the NFL season happens at the same time as the college football season. How can NFL head coaches and front office staffers both prepare for their own games week after week and keep up with the players they may be interested in drafting in real time? Luckily, there is a work-around. Through the miracle of digital video recording, NFL teams can watch videos of college games that happened months earlier, allowing them to prepare in the months between the end of the season and the draft.
However, it seems as if the Raiders front office takes a different approach: namely, the “get to the end of the NFL regular season and watch the one college football game that hasn’t been played yet” approach. Head coach Jon Gruden and general manager Mike Mayock used to work in television, detailing the nitty-gritty of the NFL draft process—remember Gruden’s QB Camp? But it seems as though, over the past three years, the team has skipped most scouting and started picking players who appeared in the last few football games of the year—often even massively reaching to make these picks.
In 2019, the Raiders picked four players who had appeared in that year’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson, including two first-rounders (Clemson’s Clelin Ferrell and Alabama’s Josh Jacobs) and a second-rounder (Clemson’s Trayvon Mullen). Ferrell was considered a reach and wasn’t expected to be a top-10 pick; Mullen didn’t make Danny Kelly’s 100-deep big board. Then in 2020, the Raiders picked four players who had appeared in the College Football Playoff, including two first-rounders (Alabama’s Henry Ruggs III and Ohio State’s Damon Arnette). Arnette was considered another massive reach—he was the 63rd pick in Kelly’s mock draft.
On Thursday night, the Raiders did it again. For the third straight year, Las Vegas used its first pick on a player who appeared in the College Football Playoff—and for the third straight year, it took a player nobody was expecting to go off the board so early. With the no. 17 pick, the Raiders selected Alabama offensive tackle Alex Leatherwood, who was listed as the 42nd player on Kelly’s big board (and the eighth best offensive lineman—tackles Christian Darrisaw and Teven Jenkins were still available). Leatherwood was 40th on the Mock Draft Database consensus big board, and projected to be a first-round pick in only 35.7 percent of NFL mock drafts. He was generally considered the second-best prospect from the Alabama offensive line, behind center Landon Dickerson.
The NFL draft features NFL teams drafting former college football players. This presents an annual challenge, because the NFL season happens at the same time as the college football season. How can NFL head coaches and front office staffers both prepare for their own games week after week and keep up with the players they may be interested in drafting in real time? Luckily, there is a work-around. Through the miracle of digital video recording, NFL teams can watch videos of college games that happened months earlier, allowing them to prepare in the months between the end of the season and the draft.
However, it seems as if the Raiders front office takes a different approach: namely, the “get to the end of the NFL regular season and watch the one college football game that hasn’t been played yet” approach. Head coach Jon Gruden and general manager Mike Mayock used to work in television, detailing the nitty-gritty of the NFL draft process—remember Gruden’s QB Camp? But it seems as though, over the past three years, the team has skipped most scouting and started picking players who appeared in the last few football games of the year—often even massively reaching to make these picks.
In 2019, the Raiders picked four players who had appeared in that year’s national championship game between Alabama and Clemson, including two first-rounders (Clemson’s Clelin Ferrell and Alabama’s Josh Jacobs) and a second-rounder (Clemson’s Trayvon Mullen). Ferrell was considered a reach and wasn’t expected to be a top-10 pick; Mullen didn’t make Danny Kelly’s 100-deep big board. Then in 2020, the Raiders picked four players who had appeared in the College Football Playoff, including two first-rounders (Alabama’s Henry Ruggs III and Ohio State’s Damon Arnette). Arnette was considered another massive reach—he was the 63rd pick in Kelly’s mock draft.
On Thursday night, the Raiders did it again. For the third straight year, Las Vegas used its first pick on a player who appeared in the College Football Playoff—and for the third straight year, it took a player nobody was expecting to go off the board so early. With the no. 17 pick, the Raiders selected Alabama offensive tackle Alex Leatherwood, who was listed as the 42nd player on Kelly’s big board (and the eighth best offensive lineman—tackles Christian Darrisaw and Teven Jenkins were still available). Leatherwood was 40th on the Mock Draft Database consensus big board, and projected to be a first-round pick in only 35.7 percent of NFL mock drafts. He was generally considered the second-best prospect from the Alabama offensive line, behind center Landon Dickerson.
Dwayne
Not Like Us
I legit think Gruden got the final say on these picks
Natural Born Sinners
Active Member
Ferrel over Devin White/Josh Allen was borderline criminal...