One thing I don't want in the draft

BayouSAINTJoe said
He's on the same trajectory...I want to say that we kept him in on a ton of snaps in the preseason because he was inconsistent.

We held on to an extra first to draft a lineman that didn't play much his rookie year. What was sooo special about Penning that we couldn't have drafted "him" this year. We got almost nothing out of that 2nd first, but spent a ton in the effort to hold onto that 2nd first. Moving up from 18 to 11 would've cost half of what it would've cost to keep 18...moved to 19 to get 16, then move from 16 to 11. And we would've gotten the exact same on the field product we fielded this year without holding on to that 2nd first.

That's my point.

Trajectory means something (barely) when there are more than a couple of points plotted in the player's career to date. You're jumping ahead just a couple of years here.

All I've seen is someone second guessing a pick they didn't like (I suspect you were pounding the table for a 'playmaker' instead at the time) and using that player's injuries which happened after the draft pick as some sort of justification, despite that being impossible to know at the time of the pick. Do you see how that doesn't work?

As for the trades, they wanted a WR and an OL in that round and obviously felt both were worth the cost of acquisition. I don't know that I like the cost either, but no one makes any move like this, while also saying, 'Ooh, but... y'know... what if he gets injured in year 1...?'. Because they don't have time machines, guy. They just don't.