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<blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1066239" data-attributes="member: 18006"><p>We hit the lottery with this one.</p><p></p><p>Everything I have seen, heard, and read about Golden this summer makes me think the same thing every single time - "so <em>this </em>is what it looks like when you draft a wide receiver in the 1st round." It's a very rare occurrence, Green Bay going WR in Round 1, because for most of the last 30-some years we came to rely on first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks to make average receivers great receivers. The last time we did it (Javon Walker), it wasn't really a great result.</p><p></p><p>In fact, Javon's first couple of years, he was so mediocre I believe it may have confirmed the front office's fear that drafting a wideout in the first was just too risky a gamble. After 2 tepid seasons, he decided it was the Packers' fault for not giving him a fair chance to succeed, so he decided to play diva and hold out. He eventually caved in, and had an All Pro 3rd season, tore an ACL in his 4th year, and was traded to Denver in his 5th. He played a couple of years there, a couple of unproductive seasons in Oakland, and in his 9th season he was cut from the Vikings' practice squad before the season opener.</p><p></p><p>I think an argument could at least be made that TT looked at that and decided that since we typically drafted in the last 1/3 or even 1/4, we were rarely going to be in a position to snag one of the truly elite WRs, so we would be better served by taking higher-value players at less glamorous positions. I'm not saying there were other players we should have taken at #20; maybe Deion Branch, but jeez, didn't seem to be all that much available at that spot at the time. Walker was defensibly the BPA at #20, but maybe we picked the wrong year to go WR in Round 1. 2002 was one of the weakest drafts I've ever seen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thirteen Below, post: 1066239, member: 18006"] We hit the lottery with this one. Everything I have seen, heard, and read about Golden this summer makes me think the same thing every single time - "so [I]this [/I]is what it looks like when you draft a wide receiver in the 1st round." It's a very rare occurrence, Green Bay going WR in Round 1, because for most of the last 30-some years we came to rely on first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterbacks to make average receivers great receivers. The last time we did it (Javon Walker), it wasn't really a great result. In fact, Javon's first couple of years, he was so mediocre I believe it may have confirmed the front office's fear that drafting a wideout in the first was just too risky a gamble. After 2 tepid seasons, he decided it was the Packers' fault for not giving him a fair chance to succeed, so he decided to play diva and hold out. He eventually caved in, and had an All Pro 3rd season, tore an ACL in his 4th year, and was traded to Denver in his 5th. He played a couple of years there, a couple of unproductive seasons in Oakland, and in his 9th season he was cut from the Vikings' practice squad before the season opener. I think an argument could at least be made that TT looked at that and decided that since we typically drafted in the last 1/3 or even 1/4, we were rarely going to be in a position to snag one of the truly elite WRs, so we would be better served by taking higher-value players at less glamorous positions. I'm not saying there were other players we should have taken at #20; maybe Deion Branch, but jeez, didn't seem to be all that much available at that spot at the time. Walker was defensibly the BPA at #20, but maybe we picked the wrong year to go WR in Round 1. 2002 was one of the weakest drafts I've ever seen. [/QUOTE]
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