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Originally Posted by QuikSand
Drafting is not an exact science, we all get that.
But you MUST be willing to take chances when they’re heavily skewed in your favor. Period. If you LOVE Gibbs as your BPA at 12, you just must make every opportunity to trade down to a space like, say, 24… and then commit to taking him there. He’d still be a reach there, by nearly every forecast, but you get your guy, a cheaper contract, and at minimum an extra 2nd round pick to use on the actual premium position you neglected by reaching for the RB.
So, my quarrel is not precisely that they chose this running back as their target player. My quarrel is the means by which they did it. They should have been willing to absorb some chance of losing out on that particular player, to gather all the benefits of trying to do so at a more reasonable point.
And basically ditto for the LB.
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To add to that, even if you hit on both of these picks, how much do they potentially impact winning? You still have an off ball linebacker and a situational running back.
This draft for the Lions was set up in a way that they could grab impact players early and still have the extra picks to maneuver to grab needs at less impactful positions in the back part of round 1 or early round 2.