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In time, I EXPECT for people to be like "we should have drafted Tavon Austin, too bad nobody thought that at the time"
Just look at the 2009 draft.
Who wouldn't trade Tyson Jackson/Andre Smith/Eugene Monroe/Jason Smith for Percy Harvin or Jeremy Maclin...or Jarius Byrd...or Brian Orakpo...or...well, the point is made.
Those types of players impact games.
This is gonna be the exact same type of outcome where players like Tavon
Austin/Ansah/Milliner/Sheldon/Vaccaro are gonna be the guys getting paid big bucks in a few years while guys like Fisher/Joeckel/Johnson and others are lowballed in contract negotiations and will be low on the priority list because their positions offer little in terms of win/loss impact.
Just like this offseason where guys like Albert/Smith/Long/Smith/Winston/Clabo all either struggled to get paid a modest wage or were let walk for nothing.
The only way to salvage any part of this bad decision is to keep Albert and at least provide this team with a return of a run of 5 years with effective bookend offensive tackles...but no matter what it will be looked at as a somewhat wasted pick.
Just like the Tyson Jackson selection.
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