Sure. I'm not going to go back and look and see who else was in the draft that year, but at the time they needed a franchise QB, and they got one. No, he wasn't transcendental like you'd like the no. 1 overall pick to be, but he was an effective locked-in starter for a long time and quarterbacked his team to a Super Bowl appearance. He only got dislodged because he was Wally Pipp to Brady's Lou Gehrig; if Bledsoe doesn't get hurt, he's got at least two more years running that team, and who knows how it all would have ended up. He's not a HoF player, not even really a borderline guy, but at least he had a good enough career that you can ask the question. Even in hindsight, it's pretty hard to fault their choice at the time.