NFL draft thread

To be fair, Rivera showed promise before the car accident that paralyzed him.

Also, the rumor was they knew too much about Marino and had concerns about off-field behavior during college.

 

Adams would be an excellent fit for the Bears. I also think teams are valuing the position more than they did a few years ago.

 

I think the all-timer might have been Huey Richardson, who went No. 15 overall in 1991, and was cut after one year.

 

Oh, I think they get plenty of credit.

 

Pretty amazimg they made a Super Bowl during that stretch.

 

Truly an awful first-round pick. It sounded like they knew he was a complete bust before they broke training camp. No way he makes that team as a rookie if he hadn't been a first-round pick.

 

Hearing Lattimore a lot lately connected to Bears. Don't like that. Maybe an OSU fan can convince me otherwise.

 

Based on a conversation with the former Steelers director of scouting, Max McCartney, with three picks remaining before the Steelers picked at number 15, they had three players targeted that they would be willing to select: Tennessee Volunteers wide receiver Alvin Harper, Colorado Buffaloes wide receiver Mike Pritchard and Arizona State Sun Devils running back Leonard Russell. When those three players were all selected with the three immediately preceding picks (by the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, respectively),[6] the Pittsburgh draft managers were unprepared and were forced to make a selection before their fifteen-minute time limit expired, and they settled on Richardson.​

 

You'll note that none of the other 3 are in the HOF.

 

True, but none of them was a complete disaster like Richardson.

It was still a stunning level of incompetence from an organization that had built a dynasty in the draft a little over a decade earlier.

 

yeah but Alvin Harper once led the league in yards per catch, Russell twice rushed for more than 950 yards and Pritchard had five seasons of more than 50 catches and finished his career with a pretty respectable 422 receptions. That's not nothing, which is what the Steelers got from Richardson.

 

YPC is a mixed bag. All fine, and they had them ranked properly. He went 15th. That's not a historic bust. Every team has 10 of them.