This isn't Kiper in the 1980s. The scouting media is now comprised of and reliant upon actual scouts.
And most of the panned "reach" picks of the past years - Randall, Khyri Thornton, Richard Rodgers, Justin Harrell - have vindicated those appraisals. Likewise, the more highly projected prospects that we passed on - like Eric Kendricks and Aaron Lynch - have certainly panned out much more consistently than our projects.
You've missed the point.
If you are going to call a player a "reach" then you have to have some sort of standard by which you judge where they were supposed to go.
That standard would obviously have to be the media, in the case of fans.
NFL teams use their own scouting departments to create their own boards and draft accordingly.
So it makes zero sense to call NFL picks "reaches" or "steals" based on media boards, when NFL teams are drafting according to different boards entirely that we are not privy to.
If you are inclined to think Deguara or Dillon bad picks because the people you're reading seem to think so, I think that's fair. And we will see. I'm certainly not fired up about either one.
But picks are good or they're bad. Without seeing the boards by which actual decisions are made, it's impossible to call them reaches or steals.