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On the day of the draft, I decided to look back at Colbert/Tomlin's time together to see what we should realistically expect today.
These guys have been together since 2007 and here's some highlights of their best picks over the years:
07 - Timmons, Woodley, Spaeth, Gay
08 - xxxx
09 - Wallace, Keenan Lewis
10 - Pouncey, Sanders, AB
11 - Cam, Marcus Gilbert
12 - Decastro
13 - Leveon Bell, Vince
14 - Shazier, Tuitt, Martavis Bryant
15 - Dupree
16 - Hargrave
17 - Watt, Juju, Sutton, James Conner
18 - Edmunds
19 - Bush, Dionte, Gentry
20 - Claypool, Highsmith, Dotson
21 - Najee, Pat
15 Years and did we even get 10 above average NFLers?
Look at the last 10 years, we've got Watt, Bush, DJ, CC, Highsmith, Dotson, Najee, and Pat as starters. That's 8 starters out of the last 10 drafts. And of those 8, Edmunds and Bush are barely hanging on. Our 2 WRs are questionable. I want to believe in Highsmith and Dotson, but they're still unknowns. So we really have Watt, Najee, and Pat as 3 top notch starters.
If you really dig into our last 15 years of drafting, it's easy to see why we haven't been winning playoff games recently. We haven't really been hitting on talent as much as we'd like to believe.
There's some great players in there in Cam, TJ, AB, Leveon, Pouncey, Decastro, Najee, and Pat. But the rest, meh? And some of these good players didn't even stick around and are gone.
So we've got a 1 in 2-3 chance of 1 good quality player being drafted and sticking around and contributing for a long time in each draft class.
So when we go into this year's draft, there's a ton of excitement, but we need to be realistic. Odds are we might not come away with any meaningful players. We just got Najee and Pat last year, so by the odds, it's probably at least another year or 2 until we find another stud draftee.
Maybe we are at a point where we really do need a new GM and some new thinking when it comes to drafting. Historically our team has been built through the draft and looking back over the last 15 years, our drafts are a pretty good reflection of the quality of team we have.
And maybe Tomlin and the coaching staff deserve even more credit for keeping this team competitive and above 500 those last 15 years given the talent we've had to work with.
Hopefully KC can go out with a bang and find us 5 HOFers in this draft class
These guys have been together since 2007 and here's some highlights of their best picks over the years:
07 - Timmons, Woodley, Spaeth, Gay
08 - xxxx
09 - Wallace, Keenan Lewis
10 - Pouncey, Sanders, AB
11 - Cam, Marcus Gilbert
12 - Decastro
13 - Leveon Bell, Vince
14 - Shazier, Tuitt, Martavis Bryant
15 - Dupree
16 - Hargrave
17 - Watt, Juju, Sutton, James Conner
18 - Edmunds
19 - Bush, Dionte, Gentry
20 - Claypool, Highsmith, Dotson
21 - Najee, Pat
15 Years and did we even get 10 above average NFLers?
Look at the last 10 years, we've got Watt, Bush, DJ, CC, Highsmith, Dotson, Najee, and Pat as starters. That's 8 starters out of the last 10 drafts. And of those 8, Edmunds and Bush are barely hanging on. Our 2 WRs are questionable. I want to believe in Highsmith and Dotson, but they're still unknowns. So we really have Watt, Najee, and Pat as 3 top notch starters.
If you really dig into our last 15 years of drafting, it's easy to see why we haven't been winning playoff games recently. We haven't really been hitting on talent as much as we'd like to believe.
There's some great players in there in Cam, TJ, AB, Leveon, Pouncey, Decastro, Najee, and Pat. But the rest, meh? And some of these good players didn't even stick around and are gone.
So we've got a 1 in 2-3 chance of 1 good quality player being drafted and sticking around and contributing for a long time in each draft class.
So when we go into this year's draft, there's a ton of excitement, but we need to be realistic. Odds are we might not come away with any meaningful players. We just got Najee and Pat last year, so by the odds, it's probably at least another year or 2 until we find another stud draftee.
Maybe we are at a point where we really do need a new GM and some new thinking when it comes to drafting. Historically our team has been built through the draft and looking back over the last 15 years, our drafts are a pretty good reflection of the quality of team we have.
And maybe Tomlin and the coaching staff deserve even more credit for keeping this team competitive and above 500 those last 15 years given the talent we've had to work with.
Hopefully KC can go out with a bang and find us 5 HOFers in this draft class
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