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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 445790" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I disagree a bit with Amish Mafia. Because of his long history of injury, I think Harrell counts as a mistake. Its one thing if you draft WR Terry Murphy or Mark D'Onofrio (second rounder by Wolf in '92 was going to be a GREAT LB) and injuries end their careers. It's another IMO to draft a kid who had injuries from high school through college and arrived in Green Bay injured. If I remember correctly, he had shin splints and a lower back problem in high school. IOW teams had notice he could be injury-prone. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Brandon Jackson was taken with the second to last pick in the second round so I understand Packers fans being disappointed he was only a third down back. But he was very good blocking in that spot and the Packers missed his contribution in that regard after he left. And he caught the ball out of the backfield pretty well too IMO. But he wasn't the every-down back you'd expect of a player drafted that high. If Thompson had balked at extending/re-signing Hawk after his rookie contract was up, and he was no longer a Packer how would those two picks compare? The #5 pick overall who started but wasn't a playmaker vs. pick #63 who was OK as a third down back? Both are disappointments but for me but neither rises to the level of a mistake like the Brohm pick does. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Just a note on D'Onofrio: One of the knocks on him coming out of college was he was <em>too intense</em>! He was going to be a talented kid with a nasty attitude in the middle of the Packers D. I was so looking forward to watching his Packers career. If I remember correctly, he suffered a really bad broken leg running down on a KOR and never recovered. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 445790, member: 4300"] [FONT=Tahoma]I disagree a bit with Amish Mafia. Because of his long history of injury, I think Harrell counts as a mistake. Its one thing if you draft WR Terry Murphy or Mark D'Onofrio (second rounder by Wolf in '92 was going to be a GREAT LB) and injuries end their careers. It's another IMO to draft a kid who had injuries from high school through college and arrived in Green Bay injured. If I remember correctly, he had shin splints and a lower back problem in high school. IOW teams had notice he could be injury-prone. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Brandon Jackson was taken with the second to last pick in the second round so I understand Packers fans being disappointed he was only a third down back. But he was very good blocking in that spot and the Packers missed his contribution in that regard after he left. And he caught the ball out of the backfield pretty well too IMO. But he wasn't the every-down back you'd expect of a player drafted that high. If Thompson had balked at extending/re-signing Hawk after his rookie contract was up, and he was no longer a Packer how would those two picks compare? The #5 pick overall who started but wasn't a playmaker vs. pick #63 who was OK as a third down back? Both are disappointments but for me but neither rises to the level of a mistake like the Brohm pick does. [/FONT] [FONT=Tahoma]Just a note on D'Onofrio: One of the knocks on him coming out of college was he was [I]too intense[/I]! He was going to be a talented kid with a nasty attitude in the middle of the Packers D. I was so looking forward to watching his Packers career. If I remember correctly, he suffered a really bad broken leg running down on a KOR and never recovered. [/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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