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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 604837" data-attributes="member: 4300">Again if you define BPA best player available regardless of position there's a lot more evidence than Raji/Crabtree. If any GM was strictly a BPA drafter, you'd see multiple picks at the same position even though that position was a strength of the team. Assume a team had a need for an ILB, for example. Yet at almost every pick, the ILB available was the second or third BPA. (Even within talent tiers there are gradations of talent.) That draft would have ignored the teams greatest need.  Or assume the teams first pick was a WR, but the next two BPAs were also WRs. IOW, if any GM picked regardless of position we would see some very odd drafts with regard to positions drafted.I think it's clear Thompson factors team needs into draft evaluations (which violates BPA before the draft), and goes beyond that to some degree during the draft. IMO Thompson adheres to BPA more than almost any other GM, but his MO can best be described as best value available, which incorporates position as well as scheme which BPA doesn't do as defined above.</blockquote>

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