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<blockquote data-quote="PackersRS" data-source="post: 243853" data-attributes="member: 1429"><p>My draft "analysis":</p><p> First pick, B.J. Raji, is a tremenduos pick. Looking back, my previous choices of Brown and Orakpo couldn't be more dumb. Raji is the best DLineman available and the #2 best defensive player. Passing on Crabtree was necessary, due to our quality and quantity at receivers in our roster.</p><p> Then we move up to draft CM3. At first glympse, it's a bad move. CM3 wasn't even the best linebacker on his college team, and we lost our 2 3rd round picks, in exchange for a 5th round pick. Then day 2 came... CM3 has bloodlines to speak for him, hasn't had a character issue, and is durable, unlike his fellows Trojan Linebackers. And best of all, he had to prove himself and work hard his entire life, as he wasn't even a starter at High School, when HIS FATHER was the DC, and was a walk-on at USC and was the best ST player of their roster. Talk about blue-collar. And he's the best special teams player IN THE DRAFT, so his impact will be imediate. (p.s. And he's not just a workout warrior like anothe USC linebacker...) But there are the loss of the picks... Let's look at it: we lost the 73 and 83 picks, used to select CB Derek Cox and WR Brandon Tate. We got the 162 pick, used to select Jamon Meredith. Quite a good deal, if you ask me. In 3 years this could be viewed as the best move the Packers ever made on a draft.</p><p> Those two players alone make this a winning draft, but we also got T.J. Lang and Jamon Meredith, two prospects that were graded as high as 2nd round, and that can become starters, if not household names for our Oline. We also got the best FB on the draft in Quinn Johnson, who's gonna help at short-yardage situations, a CB who was a starter at Ohio Sate, but due to academic problems (apparently already solved) was let go, a 3-4 DE with high regards form his coaches, to compete for a role in our D, and a great ST player, who brings 3-4 experience and has a lot of athletic ability in Brad Jones.</p><p></p><p>I give this an A grade, with the possibility of becoming an A+ grade, if even one of the OL selected are able to make the starting lineup in 2-3 years, and our 1st rounders make a pro-bowl.</p><p></p><p>Every site has us graded at least B+. The Analysts at NFL.COM rated us one of the bests drafts. Pete Prisco at CBS gave us B, which is a GREAT thing, as he said in the same article that picking Heyward-Bey over Crabtree was a great move... And Mel Kiper Jr. graded ours the best draft of 2009. Don't know if that's positive, though, as he has made some huge mistakes in the past...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PackersRS, post: 243853, member: 1429"] My draft "analysis": First pick, B.J. Raji, is a tremenduos pick. Looking back, my previous choices of Brown and Orakpo couldn't be more dumb. Raji is the best DLineman available and the #2 best defensive player. Passing on Crabtree was necessary, due to our quality and quantity at receivers in our roster. Then we move up to draft CM3. At first glympse, it's a bad move. CM3 wasn't even the best linebacker on his college team, and we lost our 2 3rd round picks, in exchange for a 5th round pick. Then day 2 came... CM3 has bloodlines to speak for him, hasn't had a character issue, and is durable, unlike his fellows Trojan Linebackers. And best of all, he had to prove himself and work hard his entire life, as he wasn't even a starter at High School, when HIS FATHER was the DC, and was a walk-on at USC and was the best ST player of their roster. Talk about blue-collar. And he's the best special teams player IN THE DRAFT, so his impact will be imediate. (p.s. And he's not just a workout warrior like anothe USC linebacker...) But there are the loss of the picks... Let's look at it: we lost the 73 and 83 picks, used to select CB Derek Cox and WR Brandon Tate. We got the 162 pick, used to select Jamon Meredith. Quite a good deal, if you ask me. In 3 years this could be viewed as the best move the Packers ever made on a draft. Those two players alone make this a winning draft, but we also got T.J. Lang and Jamon Meredith, two prospects that were graded as high as 2nd round, and that can become starters, if not household names for our Oline. We also got the best FB on the draft in Quinn Johnson, who's gonna help at short-yardage situations, a CB who was a starter at Ohio Sate, but due to academic problems (apparently already solved) was let go, a 3-4 DE with high regards form his coaches, to compete for a role in our D, and a great ST player, who brings 3-4 experience and has a lot of athletic ability in Brad Jones. I give this an A grade, with the possibility of becoming an A+ grade, if even one of the OL selected are able to make the starting lineup in 2-3 years, and our 1st rounders make a pro-bowl. Every site has us graded at least B+. The Analysts at NFL.COM rated us one of the bests drafts. Pete Prisco at CBS gave us B, which is a GREAT thing, as he said in the same article that picking Heyward-Bey over Crabtree was a great move... And Mel Kiper Jr. graded ours the best draft of 2009. Don't know if that's positive, though, as he has made some huge mistakes in the past... [/QUOTE]
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