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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1080697" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>I kind of get that idea, but what I'm saying is that where a player was drafted DOES matter still... practically speaking, for one, his draft position directly impacts his cap hit. This year his cap number is about 4.8m. If he had been drafted at the end of the first rather than the top half, that'd be more like 3.5m or so. If he was a second round pick instead, we'd be looking at more like 2m and change. And those are not HUGE discrepancies (you're talking a max savings of ~2.5m this year) but that stuff adds up all the same. Moreover though it's a matter of opportunity cost. Like above, draft picks are finite resources and you're limited in the number of "shots" you get at landing an impact player. For instance, I know it's been beaten to death, but take the Kevin King/TJ Watt situation. Even if King developed into a solid player, he's always going to be judged against Watt because the "opportunity cost" of that pick makes it as such that picking King came at the expense of picking Watt. Of course this is only really possible to assess in hindsight, but still point being that a player's draft position IMO does indeed still carry consideration long after they are selected</p></blockquote><p></p>

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