Building with Draft Picks

[Ruff]

Interesting article. It basically goes into detail about how teams are building through the Draft, and how many Draft picks are currently on the team.

Link

Spoiler Alert: Panthers only have 19 current original Draft picks on their team. Only 6 teams has less. The most is the Packers with 33.

[Man Strength]

i remember a few years ago we were one of the league leaders in draft picks on the team and draft pick starters....and we were awful.  keeping, and even worse starting, bad draft picks is the worst thing you can do.  IMO the packers ran into this same problem recently.  

[panthers55]

How many of the teams with more draft picks have a new coach and a new GM. When Hurney was here we had more of our own draft picks than most teams.  Since he left and most of the guys were Hurney picks, it isn't surprising many are gone.  

As the article points out, front office continuity has the most to do with how many draft picks are still there not necessarily who actually picks better in the draft.  Other teams go heavily with free agents while many do not.

[Mr. Scot]

Building through the draft is like watching paint dry. The jags have been picking top 5 the last 5 years.

 

Building through the draft is the best way to build a perennial contender, but you have to be able to draft well to do it.

 

The Jags haven't.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins PhD]

As noted with Hurney, sometimes blind loyalty to your draft picks can be....... disastrous.

[Mr. Scot]

As noted with Hurney, sometimes blind loyalty to your draft picks can be....... disastrous.

 

Yep.

 

The team used to use the fact that we had kept so many of our own draft picks on roster as a way of defending Hurney's work as a GM.

 

As was discussed elsewhere, that argument is really only valid when you can show you've built a winner with those picks.