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Originally Posted by Rausch
It may be true. It's also true that in that specific draft he was the 2nd or 3rd best pick in that 1st round. That year that we had the no 1 pick it was just a garbage draft. Unbelievable bust rate for 1st round players that year.
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Yeah -- that's about the long and short of it.
He wasn't a great 1.1 from a historical perspective. Most guys that go that high have been better players.
But that's not really a fair review. What would be fair is 'where does 1.1 relate in relation to other guys taken in the top 10...'
Because anyone outside of the top 10 in any given draft was never in consideration by ANYONE for the first overall pick. So saying some guy that got drafted in the 2nd should've gone 1.1 is bullshit hindsight nonsense.
But to evaluate the pick it has to be relative. And Fisher was the 2nd best pick in that group; behind only Lane Johnson. Did they get it EXACTLY right? No -- history says Johnson's a better pick. Did they get it WRONG? (I.E. Luke Joeckel) -- **** no.
And I suspect in most of those drafts there were 'better' players than Fisher who went 1.1 but were clearly inferior to other guys who were in legitimate consideration for that spot. Those picks are 'worse' than the Chiefs did with Fisher.
They managed that pick about as well as could've been reasonably expected.