Spriggs did perform well. He took his lumps, seemed to need a couple plays to warm up, but he got tossed out in some tough situations too and they expected him to perform. He was at least adequate in that role as a rookie. He needs to add a bit of strength, but so did BahkT and I'd say that worked out.
"You can never have too many good QB's" I paraphrased. Since Ted isn't too well liked by most lately, Ron Wolf said that, or something to that effect and also said you should always plan on drafting a QB to develop no matter who your starter is. From the brief appearances, I'd say Hundley was a good pick in the 5th.
as for the last bit about " at what cost of finding players at positions of higher need" what was our need last year going into the draft? The previous year the constant rotation and injury at the offensive line really affected this team all year long. Quality back ups at the offensive line, especially knowing that a year from then we'd be looking at potentially replacing 2 pro-bowl caliber guards, I'd say offensive line was one of our only needs going into the draft last year. We were set at safety. Defensive backs were considered a strength, we had a committed Eddie Lacy and serviceable backups at RB, ILB was a perceived need, and getting Jordy back.
Now that we're a season behind us we can see we only have to replace 1 guard, which we did, maybe another. that has yet TBD'd. We can see DB's were decimated and maybe not as strong? or maybe just really injured, but despite losing some brief stints on the oline, Spriggs stepped in and did pretty well for us. Certainly better than trotting that other guy out there at left tackle. bad enough he had to take snaps at guard.