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Old 05-13-2019, 12:08 PM   #179
revrew
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Just outside Des Moines, IA
Season 6, Draft day:

After all the build up, after all the drama, after all eyes were on Des Moines … the draft for the Dragons was a complete fizzle. Iowa QB Grayson Shello did, indeed, go #1 overall – to Chicago.

And with no other 1st round Iowa players on the board at 1.31, NFL Commissioner James Gordon stepped forward and announced a trade:

The Des Moines Dragons traded the 1.31 to the Jets for

CB Warren Sims (28/50, 2nd year), University of Iowa
The 4.21
And next year's 3rd

Draft pundits largely panned the trade, suggesting Des Moines could have gotten much more for the 1.31, if they weren't beholden to drafting players out of Iowa alone.

Later in the draft, the Dragons selected:

3.31 RB Douglass Flagg, Iowa State (28/47) - A smaller back with both elusiveness and speed. He showed good patience and vision, but he won't overpower tacklers. Have the Dragons finally found a playmaker at the RB position?

4.21 (from Jets) QB Julian Price, Iowa (11/54) – Grayson Shello's backup at Iowa is largely an unknown. But he has a cannon for an arm, was highly recruited, and very much looked the part at Iowa's pro-day. A big question mark.

4.31 QB Scottie Coffman, Drake (12/34) – The second QB taken by the Dragons in the same round, Coffman is a short of stature and short-pass specialist. He might be a fit in a West Coast offense.

6.31 WR Isaac Kinney, Iowa State (19/33) – He's fast enough, having clocked a 4.47 40 at the combine. But there's little on game tape to suggest he'll rise up the depth chart.

7.31 DT Ty Wynn, Iowa (7/12) – A big body, but is he talented enough to more?
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