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<blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 874982" data-attributes="member: 12283"><p>Running backs in general went a lot higher than the projections led fans to believe. Dillon, Vaughn, and Evans were all mid round projections who people thought (myself included-- no judgment) might have been available in rounds 4 or 5. They all went on day two. The tier that people thought my be available even later than that (Kelley, Perine, MacFarland, Dallas) all went in round 4. A grand total of four running backs went in rounds 5-7, where a lot of people thought the Packers might find a back: Jason Huntley, Eno Benjamin, Raymond Calais, and Malcolm Perry. </p><p></p><p>In general, it's baseless to call any player in the draft a "reach." Teams make decisions based on their own evaluations and their own draft boards. Judging their decisions based on media rankings makes no sense. That doesn't mean every pick is good, or we have to like every choice. Obviously not. But when a fan says that a team reached because of rankings they saw on Bleacher Report or something, they are essentially saying that in this disagreement between an NFL FO and some amateur fan blogger, they're going to defer to the latter. That's crazy.</p><p></p><p>But even moreso in this case, the way that the RB position fell in the draft as a whole suggests that Dillon wouldn't have lasted until their next pick, much less to the end of the draft. That argument completely ignores what actually happened. The evidence points to one conclusion-- the league liked these players a lot more than the media did. </p><p></p><p>In the case of Deguara, there is also evidence that the NFL liked him more than the media, and that he would not have been available later. Throughout the process, there were two guys identified as potential H-backs who were consistently projected near one another: Josiah Deguara and Dalton Keene. Deguara surprised people when he was taken at #94, but then Keene went at #101. A grand total of three tight ends went from rounds 5-7: Charlie Woerner, Tyler Davis, and Stephen Sullivan. </p><p></p><p>The only player that went rounds 4-7 that's even a little bit like Deguara is Charlie Woerner, and he went round 6 and is a lesser prospect by a considerable degree. </p><p></p><p>It's been a groupthink mantra since the draft for fans to say "We could have gotten these guys later! They reached!" but there is literally zero evidence that that's true, and simply looking at the draft results as a whole should be enough to realize that there's little to no chance that it's true.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dantés, post: 874982, member: 12283"] Running backs in general went a lot higher than the projections led fans to believe. Dillon, Vaughn, and Evans were all mid round projections who people thought (myself included-- no judgment) might have been available in rounds 4 or 5. They all went on day two. The tier that people thought my be available even later than that (Kelley, Perine, MacFarland, Dallas) all went in round 4. A grand total of four running backs went in rounds 5-7, where a lot of people thought the Packers might find a back: Jason Huntley, Eno Benjamin, Raymond Calais, and Malcolm Perry. In general, it's baseless to call any player in the draft a "reach." Teams make decisions based on their own evaluations and their own draft boards. Judging their decisions based on media rankings makes no sense. That doesn't mean every pick is good, or we have to like every choice. Obviously not. But when a fan says that a team reached because of rankings they saw on Bleacher Report or something, they are essentially saying that in this disagreement between an NFL FO and some amateur fan blogger, they're going to defer to the latter. That's crazy. But even moreso in this case, the way that the RB position fell in the draft as a whole suggests that Dillon wouldn't have lasted until their next pick, much less to the end of the draft. That argument completely ignores what actually happened. The evidence points to one conclusion-- the league liked these players a lot more than the media did. In the case of Deguara, there is also evidence that the NFL liked him more than the media, and that he would not have been available later. Throughout the process, there were two guys identified as potential H-backs who were consistently projected near one another: Josiah Deguara and Dalton Keene. Deguara surprised people when he was taken at #94, but then Keene went at #101. A grand total of three tight ends went from rounds 5-7: Charlie Woerner, Tyler Davis, and Stephen Sullivan. The only player that went rounds 4-7 that's even a little bit like Deguara is Charlie Woerner, and he went round 6 and is a lesser prospect by a considerable degree. It's been a groupthink mantra since the draft for fans to say "We could have gotten these guys later! They reached!" but there is literally zero evidence that that's true, and simply looking at the draft results as a whole should be enough to realize that there's little to no chance that it's true. [/QUOTE]
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