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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 812008"><p>There's no reason to think QB is the exception. If a team has a young and talented position group with clear deficiencies elsewhere it is no different than if they have a young and talented QB, or even and older and talented one.</p><p></p><p>I don't know why people view the draft differently from free agency. When you see Gutekunst reportedly in the bidding for Robinson and Watkins, with confirmed bids for Graham, T. Williams, House and Kyle Fuller, does anybody see themes? Or when Fuller could not be landed and the Packers went CB with the first two picks, does anybody see a continuation of that theme? Does anybody believe the determination to bid, sign or draft these players was, alternatively, the "best available player" regardless of position at their respective FA price points or strictly the "best available player" regardless of position ("excluding QB") in the draft?</p><p></p><p>The best available player at one of several positions of need is a starting point, but it goes deeper than that. Need at one position may be identified but it may be less acute than another. If, for example, the "best available player" in this draft was a center who has never played guard with a draft grade comparable to Quenton Nelson's and that guy fell to #12, would you be OK with taking him even if his grade was meaningfully better than the next guy? I wouldn't. I'd try to trade it, and that is itself a need consideration.</p><p></p><p>But that's an atypical example. Typically, grade differences among multiple players are within the margin of error at any pick.</p><p></p><p>I think it's absurd to believe need does not and should not factor into the equation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 812008"] There's no reason to think QB is the exception. If a team has a young and talented position group with clear deficiencies elsewhere it is no different than if they have a young and talented QB, or even and older and talented one. I don't know why people view the draft differently from free agency. When you see Gutekunst reportedly in the bidding for Robinson and Watkins, with confirmed bids for Graham, T. Williams, House and Kyle Fuller, does anybody see themes? Or when Fuller could not be landed and the Packers went CB with the first two picks, does anybody see a continuation of that theme? Does anybody believe the determination to bid, sign or draft these players was, alternatively, the "best available player" regardless of position at their respective FA price points or strictly the "best available player" regardless of position ("excluding QB") in the draft? The best available player at one of several positions of need is a starting point, but it goes deeper than that. Need at one position may be identified but it may be less acute than another. If, for example, the "best available player" in this draft was a center who has never played guard with a draft grade comparable to Quenton Nelson's and that guy fell to #12, would you be OK with taking him even if his grade was meaningfully better than the next guy? I wouldn't. I'd try to trade it, and that is itself a need consideration. But that's an atypical example. Typically, grade differences among multiple players are within the margin of error at any pick. I think it's absurd to believe need does not and should not factor into the equation. [/QUOTE]
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