2012 Draft Grades: Post Here

When the B&G Play, we have a W or L. With the Draft we see grades. Although the Draft grade does not equate to how many draftees stick to help the team, it is interesting.

2012 NFL Draft Grades – Audibles (http://nfl.si.com/2012/04/29/2012-nfl-draft-grades/)

2012 NFC draft grades: Defensive-minded Eagles, Packers earn high marks - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--2012-nfc-draft-grades--defensive-minded-eagles--packers-earn-high-marks.html;_ylt=AgbP_HSZl1IGrfkYzNAQnNE5nYcB)

2012 AFC draft grades: Risky Dolphins, O-line needy Steelers earn high marks - Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--2012-afc-draft-grades--risky-dolphins--o-line-needy-steelers-earn-high-marks.html;_ylt=AlzLRGYuV9gSJxcR0EXNMH05nYcB)

Grading the NFL Draft - Road Runner (http://www.rr.com/sports/topic/article/rr/2020/68141230/Grading_the_NFL_Draft)

Nothing like grading the draft a couple days after it happens.

I cannot think of anything more useless than a draft grade.

It's along time till Football starts up for real, this gives us something to talk about IMO.

I cannot think of anything more useless than a draft grade.



5th string FB?, Stephen Hawking's football? Dirtbag59?

A+. Haven't lost a single game with these ballers we drafted over the weekend.

I thought Mel Kiper's assessment (http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft2012/story/_/id/7823750/mel-kiper-gives-grades-every-nfl-team-draft) of our draft was a fair one:

Needs: B+; Value: C; Overall: C
Summary: If you feel like the grade is a tough one, remember I have to factor in the extraordinary value given up to acquire Robert Griffin III. I've looked, and it's as much as we've ever seen dealt for a top-5 pick. I think RG3 will be a very good player, and I think he can be pretty good right out of the gate, but he's this draft for Washington, and he came at the cost of (likely) three future starters. The pick of another quarterback, Kirk Cousins, obviously created some curiosity. I can see a plan: Washington develops an asset it can deal in a year to regain some draft picks. Is Cousins worth a second-round pick in a year? He could be. It was smart to get a couple of guards, because the offensive line is a weakness outside of Trent Williams. The Redskins got their guy in RG3, they just gave up an extraordinary amount to do so. Only fair to factor that in.

I thought Mel Kiper's assessment (http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft2012/story/_/id/7823750/mel-kiper-gives-grades-every-nfl-team-draft) of our draft was a fair one:

Needs: B+; Value: C; Overall: C
Summary: If you feel like the grade is a tough one, remember I have to factor in the extraordinary value given up to acquire Robert Griffin III. I've looked, and it's as much as we've ever seen dealt for a top-5 pick. I think RG3 will be a very good player, and I think he can be pretty good right out of the gate, but he's this draft for Washington, and he came at the cost of (likely) three future starters. The pick of another quarterback, Kirk Cousins, obviously created some curiosity. I can see a plan: Washington develops an asset it can deal in a year to regain some draft picks. Is Cousins worth a second-round pick in a year? He could be. It was smart to get a couple of guards, because the offensive line is a weakness outside of Trent Williams. The Redskins got their guy in RG3, they just gave up an extraordinary amount to do so. Only fair to factor that in.
He makes a bunch of subjective points. Some may be right or wrong but probably somewhere in between. Then he assigns a quantification to the subjective evaluation. It's both "fair" and totally "idiotic" at the same time because there isn't one single quantifiable thing about it. I'm not knocking Mel any more than any of these other "grades".

Grading a draft is like grading poetry.

They all love the skins last year, mixed on them this year.

They got 9 players all at positions of need, and we didn't just need a good QB, we needed a good backup QB. Why aren't people all over Denver for Osweiler? Manning only has a 3 year window or whatever, its smart drafting to make sure your backed up at the most important position.

Not going to pull a premature, meaningless letter out of a hat without seeing any of these guys play for us, but I like this year's draft. Past RGIII, it's not as exciting as last year's haul, but we addressed every need with quality depth, if not future starters.

We hit QB obviously, as well as backup QB (one more year with Rex on bench). The trend in the NFL of developing a backup and trading away for a haul has been paying off handsomely for teams lately. Lets jump in on that action, or hang onto him as a great backup.

O-line was hit at all three positions, G, T and Center (Gettis likely).

We added depth at CB and S.

Since Hightower has not signed yet, we added another RB to go with Helu and Royster. If Hightower comes back (hopefully), we can bulk this guy up to be a backup FB.

LB, specifically London's backup and heir...another Texas Longhorn LB. They've been churning out quality DEs and LBs for a while now, as we know very well.

We took a very limited number of picks and not only increased the number of picks through trades, but we addressed every single "urgent" positional need.

This draft can only be graded as a big success in terms of filling needs. We'll find out how good these guys are later but from a strategic standpoint...we did the best we possible could have.

The Cousins pick SHOCKED and confused me at first but then I remembered we had Rex as RGIII's backup and the more I think about the pick, the more I like it.