Grade the Redskins Draft!

i can,t grade then...time will tell.....

I'm confident Heyer will be decent RT this year, but he could be much more than that (and I hope he will be this year).. Although we did nothing to upgrade our offense, beside the signing of Mike Williams.. I think we would still see some improvements with the O.. O-line men will know who to block, just like WRs will know where to go and Campbell will know where everybody re going.. It's all about experiences - they gain confidences through experiences..

I don't believe Mike will take over the spot; coming in weighted 410 is an unrealistic ideal replacement.. Unless Mike pull out some kind of miracle or whatever..

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The only thing I would have done differently is Oher at 13. Well, and I would have gotten some need help in the late rounds, but after watching last year's punt team massacre, you could argue that we were addressing our needs.

An improved defense is going to help the offense. More turnovers = more offensive possessions = more scoring opportunities. Better field position = more scoring opportunities.

By improving the D, the O will benefit.

I agree 100%. Hopefully Heyer will step his game up and everyone on the line can stay healthy. The chances of that happening are slim but improving the pass rush will w/out question help out Hall, Rogers and co.

I can understand the frustration about not drafting offensive linemen, but it's hard to take an argument that says Snyder is setting Zorn up to fail with the selections we made too seriously.

I don't know why it's hard to give them a high grade for selecting Orakpo. Plenty of teams make poor selections in the first round, yet we (fans) tend to take for granted the selections we make in the first round as no-brainers. We could have selected any of the USC linebackers, or Oher, English, Ayers, Mack. All were available and all could have filled needs, so I don't think it's as simple as "Here's Orakpo, that's a no-brainer."

I hear you...I didn't mean to imply that I give them no credit for picking Orakpo. I said I can't give the whole draft an A or B based on that pick alone. And like I said I don't know a lot about the guys they took later in the draft but nothing really jumped out at me. I would have liked to see them get a change of pace RB to compliment Portis and they didn't address the OL. I just wasn't overwhelmed so I gave them a C...it's not like I gave them an F though.

An improved defense is going to help the offense. More turnovers = more offensive possessions = more scoring opportunities. Better field position = more scoring opportunities.

By improving the D, the O will benefit.

I do agree with that but if our RT position does not hold up better then it did in December then we are going to get those points 3 at a time.

I can understand the frustration about not drafting offensive linemen, but it's hard to take an argument that says Snyder is setting Zorn up to fail with the selections we made too seriously.

Perhaps "setting up to fail" is not the right term. Maybe "not doing a D--- thing to help him succeed" would be more appropriate.

I do agree with that but if our RT position does not hold up better then it did in December then we are going to get those points 3 at a time.

one thing that WILL help is that we are not playing Pitt/Baltimore in late Nov/Dec.

If you were to break the draft into First Day Grade, Second Day Grade, and Overall Grade, I think you might find a lot more agreement on the first two picks. For me, our first day was a win - Orakpo was a solid pick, good value and filling a need. Barnes appears to be a bit of a steal and bumps the first day to a B+. For me, and for the reasons I've stated, I think the second day was a D-. Did we address needs? maybe. Did we get good value? from everything I've read, the 5th round selection would have been available in the 7th round or as an UFA. In fact, the only player I saw with a draft expectation was the receiver. So... we took a scattershot approach to a position of lesser need than the OL (IMO), we picked players who would have been available later or as UFDA's, we ignored a position of need and, in the position of need, passed over players rated higher than the ones we chose. Why not take a couple of flyers on Meredith in the 5th and Murtha in the 7th?

I hope I am wrong, but I don't see anyone who helps us in the 2nd day in the short or long term. If Nelson turns out to be a find, great. Otherwise, we would have been better off trying to find more developmental lineman.