Grading our Recent Draft History

[Aussie Tank]

Draft poo play poo. 

[WhoKnows]

15 hours ago, rebelrouser said:

Considering Fitterer probably didn't have that much to do with the first class after he arrived, the guy really sucked as a GM.

Remember we made fun of Rhule’s wife picking Hubbard because she liked him. Rhule was very familiar with Hubbard so you are right, I doubt he had much to do with the 2021 draft. Chuba ran for 173 and 2 TDs against Rhule’s last Baylor team.

[WhoKnows]

14 hours ago, rebelrouser said:

Yep, and everyone saw that coming except the Panthers who traded away the future the year before.

That’s our MO. We drafted a risky torn ACL in the 2nd as the 1st RB drafted when the 2025 RB draft class is loaded and deep. A healthy Brooks might be a 3rd rounder in 2025 and we took him in 2024 knowing he might not even play in 2024 which makes the not looking ahead at the 2025 RB class all that much more idiotic.

I know our finish and Young were way better than expected but we really need honest to goodness good drafts. While we won two OT games in the last 4 games, we also lost 30-14 and 48-14 in the other two games.

We can’t have another feel good draft where we tell ourselves that Legette, Brooks, Wallace and Sanders might be OK someday. I’d bet good money that there aren’t many, if any, teams that would trade their top 4 picks for our top 4 in this past draft.

 

[PNW_PantherMan]

4 minutes ago, WhoKnows said:

That’s our MO. We drafted a risky torn ACL in the 2nd as the 1st RB drafted when the 2025 RB draft class is loaded and deep. A healthy Brooks might be a 3rd rounder in 2025 and we took him in 2024 knowing he might not even play in 2024 which makes the not looking ahead at the 2025 RB class all that much more idiotic.

Incredibly stupid pick even before he got hurt again this year.  There's so many good backs coming out this year.  It's absolutely crazy.

[Gapanthersfan]

And this is the fine line crappy teams walk. Imagine this team if they had hit on a promising DE in the second instead of what they now have with Brooks. 

[WhoKnows]

21 hours ago, Gapanthersfan said:

And this is the fine line crappy teams walk. Imagine this team if they had hit on a promising DE in the second instead of what they now have with Brooks. 

Imagine if we just took Brandon Fiske instead of trading him to the Rams. 8.5 sacks for a rookie DT seems pretty good. That Rams’ 2nd has gone from top 5 to bottom 8 since the early games and Fiske is part of the reason. Reminds me of the CMC trade where we thought we might be getting top half of the round picks only to get the 31st pick of each round, significantly devaluing the trade. We on the other hand think we are giving up late round picks for Darnold and CJ Henderson and Young, but they all end up top 5 or so picks.

We are one of the worst drafting and trading teams around.

[Gapanthersfan]

This season could have been COMPLETELY different if they had hit on a legit pass rusher to pair up with Clowney.