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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 491564" data-attributes="member: 4300">How do injuries illustrate the “real problem” with the draft? Injuries affect players acquired via UFA, street FA, UDFA, and the draft. That players can get injured doesn’t distinguish them by the category of their acquisition. If Thompson jumped into the UFA frenzy and mortgaged the future for one player and that player got injured, that would be a much better argument regarding “real problems” acquiring a certain category of player. Because in addition to the hole in the lineup that would cause, a corresponding problem would exist in the team’s salary cap and perhaps cash reserve. Beyond that while the hope is that draftees contribute immediately Thompson’s draft and develop policy emphasizes development. So it’s not only the most recent draftees that are counted upon but previous ones who have hopefully developed. As we all know, the Packers draft emphasized defense, including of course the first two picks. The defense went from 19th in scoring defense to 11th. That’s obviously not “slipping”. </blockquote>

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