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Originally Posted by smithandrew051
It can be both though.
Targeting a guy early who sucks (Skyy Moore) is evaluation.
Teams that draft guys late who become great are probably a little lucky and draft a bunch of busts along the way. If they loved those players so much, they’d take them earlier.
The draft is a bit of a crapshoot. Have to evaluate those guys better but also need to take more swings at receiver. Like we’ve done with DB.
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I think evaluation has been bad outside the Draft too. MVS & Toney are examples of that. Frankly, so is Sammy Watkins. They signed him to a $16M salary when the top end of the receiver market was $20M. He missed about 50% of the games with injury, so you basically had a $32M receiver who didn't perform anywhere near that level. Everyone knew his injury problems before they signed him, and the injuries continued after he joined the team.
Toney is like a boneheaded version of Sammy. At least Sammy ran good routes and caught the ball when he wasn't on the sidelines with injury. Toney is injured a lot, runs poor routes, can't catch the ball, and apparently can't line up correctly without penalty as well. Lol