Should we just trade all our top draft picks?

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Great article, makes you think about how many would-be stars never even got a chance to prove themselves while bust after bust held on to roster spots because of their draft positions.
 

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Interesting however when you get a Russel Wilson in the 3rd round it really skews the whole deal. If you look around the league typically the top teams have 1st round QB's. Now if we're talking OL that is an interesting thing to look at.
 

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seabowl":2ca6rja3 said:
Interesting however when you get a Russel Wilson in the 3rd round it really skews the whole deal. If you look around the league typically the top teams have 1st round QB's. Now if we're talking OL that is an interesting thing to look at.

Skews it alrighty, but not in the direction you think. If you think we are skewed downwards in the snaps vs. draft position stat (all the way to the bottom!) just because RW was a third-rounder and the QB typically plays all offensive snaps, remember that with this guy's methodology the fact that QB is the most important player on O isn't accounted for. He's just another cog in the machine. If you weigh each position by importance and multiply that factor in, we'd still be at the bottom because "typically the top teams have 1st round QB's", but the contrast would be even more stark.
 

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Dallas and Oakland just got late round QBs, possibly like we did so it does happen.
 

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I remember the fervor a few years ago, when news got out that the Patriots were turning their late-round picks into all-stars and fans of every team started wanting their team to do the same.

Funny thing is, as soon as that demand surfaced, it stopped happening. The Patriots' late-round drafting actually got pretty dismal for a few years, their defense got mediocre, and it became clear that Tom Brady's skill and Bill Belichick's schematic genius were solely responsible for keeping the team in constant contention.

Even funnier, a similar thing has happened to the Seahawks - our late-round success has actually ground mostly to a halt after 2011 without anyone noticing. Four years of drafting after Day Two has given us four starters - Thomas Rawls, Mark Glowinski, Garry Gilliam, and Luke Willson - and the consensus of this board is that the latter two are stopgaps.
 

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evergreen":173t94ev said:
Dallas and Oakland just got late round QBs, possibly like we did so it does happen.

Derek Carr was not a late round QB. He was pick 4 of the 2nd round (36th overall) in the 2014 draft, only 4 spots behind Teddy Bridgewater. Kaepernick was drafted in the same spot in 2011.
 
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