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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 604820">Just to be clear.  I don't believe in BPA as a principle.  Nor do I believe anybody practices it in reality, except perhaps those who finish very badly and need to clean house and rebuild.  It's been a long time since there's been an expansion team.  <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" data-shortname=";)" />There's just too much evidence that BPA, or even "best value available", is not the ruling principle even in the World According to Ted.  Just go back through Thompson's first round picks and the incumbents at their positions, who in many cases were cut, let go in free agency, or were nearing retirement.  The most glaring example is the draft (and the guys let go) in advance of the Packer conversion to 3-4.I do believe that the preponderance of high picks go to the best player available among the positions of need.  It could be a pick filling a current gaping need, or a gaping need in the two-year horizon, or even a first round QB in a 3-year-or-less horizon if the incumbent franchise guy has made serial threats of leaving the team high and dry.</blockquote>

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