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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 933088" data-attributes="member: 7261">That's actually a great way to break it down, by comparing 2 players at the same position.  Since, yes, my K and QB were pretty extreme in trying to prove my point.  So back to your RB's. If you get pretty much equal players with a 1st and a 7th round pick, at the end of the 4 or so years, I can see why one might say "2 solid picks from that draft class."  However, you invested a ton more in the first RB picked, since you could have traded that pick for multiple picks and still kept your 7th rounder.  Hell, you might have ended up drafting 3-4 really solid players with all those picks you got in the trade.  Now that draft class became much more successful that your previous one.Basically, the higher the pick, the higher your odds of getting a better player and the higher the expectations on his performance.  Later the pick, the less you expect out of them.  Getting a solid backup and good special teams player from a 7th rounder is good, but from the 4th guy picked in the entire Draft, not that good.</blockquote>

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