He just needs more time.

[emby]

Draft retrospective for draft week.

Let's start with five years ago (!) with the Class of 2019

Round Pick Player Position College Notes
1 5 Devin White * LB LSU
2 39 Sean Murphy-Bunting CB Central Michigan
3 94 Jamel Dean CB Auburn from L.A. Rams
3 99 Mike Edwards S Kentucky from L.A. Rams
4 107 Anthony Nelson DE Iowa
5 145 Matt Gay * K Utah
6 208 Scotty Miller WR Bowling Green from Philadelphia Eagles
7 215 Terry Beckner DT Missouri from Arizona Cardinals

We should have a class on making tables since we're so big into stats.

Class of 2020

Round Pick Player Position College Notes
1 13 Tristan Wirfs * OT Iowa from Indianapolis via San Francisco
2 45 Antoine Winfield Jr. * S Minnesota
3 76 Ke'Shawn Vaughn RB Vanderbilt
5 161 Tyler Johnson WR Minnesota
6 194 Khalil Davis DE Nebraska
7 241 Chapelle Russell LB Temple from New England
7 245 Raymond Calais RB Louisiana-Lafayette from San Francisco


Class of 2021

Round Selection Player Position College Notes
1 32 Joe Tryon-Shoyinka OLB Washington
2 64 Kyle Trask QB Florida
3 95 Robert Hainsey OT Notre Dame
4 129 Jaelon Darden WR North Texas from Seattle
5 176 K. J. Britt ILB Auburn
7 251 Chris Wilcox CB BYU from Pittsburgh
259 Grant Stuard OLB Houston

Eight guys in three drafts for a three year stretch. Only half of whom are starters. Obviously, after year three, Licht is ready to start making decisions about people.

While the survival rate is low....The guys on this list who have gotten paid by the front office have gotten paid well.

Over at It's a dumb fuck's life they're too busy trying to build fantasy teams. They want five year starters out of every pick and without laying it all out on a spreadsheet I'll contend that the vast majority of these drafted players had significant enough playing time for both the player to have an opportunity, and for the organization to make a decision. I have no issues with who has or has not been re-signed from this group.

The real question here is the front office hitting on enough of these picks and getting the production.




Look at Keyshawn Vaughn. Third round pick to be a backup or change of pace RB. Got blasted his rookie season and was never the same player.

43 games, 103 attempts, 384 yards, 2 tuddies with another receiving tuddy and 81 yards.

Ten yards per game ain't cutting it and that's why he's gone. There's no reason why that production can't be replaced.

So instead of expecting that Vaughn become the franchise RB since we burned a third on him, what would have been they type of production you want from a 3rd round backup RB?

It's not enough to call Vaughn a bust just because he didn't finish his deal. He was a bust because he couldn't produce behind Fournette, Jones, and ultimately...Rashaad White who was drafted in the third round.

[emby]

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Somewhere in the valuation is the break even point for production against draft capital to either retain a guy or cut a guy and draft his replacement.

I can replace a jag with with a late round pick but I had better spend a first round pick trying to replace someone like Mike Evans.

Do I need to spend a first round pick to replace Devin White when I potentially already have the production from last year's fifth round pick?

We need to flesh out these metrics or we're just eyeballing the roster every off-season.

[emby]

Boy, that OP doesn't get better with age. The '21 class is pretty ick since I'm literally scouting replacing everyone taken in days one and two as well as KJ Britt.

[The Outsider]

In all fairness that was also our SB draft so it's pretty much all 32nd picks, which may as well not be in the round they're in.

[emby]

In all fairness that was also our SB draft so it's pretty much all 32nd picks, which may as well not be in the round they're in.

Superbowl hangover draft.

It literally reads like a list of team needs.