Perhaps i was misunderstood. It's not more or less the quantity, it's the quality of the picks IE within the top 100. When Ireland has had a certain # of picks within the top 100 he's done well.
2018 - (1) #91 (Trequan Smith)
2019 - (1) #48 (Erk McCoy)
2020 - (2) #24, #74 ( Cesar Ruiz, Zach Baun)
2021 - (3) *28, #60, #76 (Payton Turner, Pete Werner, Pauslon Adebo)
2022 - (3) #11, #19, #49 ( Chris Olave, Trevor Penning, Alontae Taylor)
2023 - (3) #29, #40, #71 ( Bresee, Foskey, Miller)
2024 - (2) #14, #413 (Fuaga, McKinstry)
The only real non contributor on that list is Foskey. We're obviously not skilled at the DE position, I think that's because the prototypes need to be adjusted. I also have to acknowledge that 2022-2024 were all draft classes headed by Allen under the (Smart, Tough, Competitive) mantra which likely changed the "types" of guys we became interested in acquiring.
Conversely
2017 (5) #11, 32, 42, 67, 76 (and I could throw in 103) Latt, Ramczyk, Williams, Kamara, Anzalone and Hendrickson if you throw in 103. Ironically it was also the draft where we let the board fall to us and found value in each pick. We tried to trade up for the Reuben Foster and thank god that crashed through because we ended up w/ Ram. However, it was the type of draft I'm sure Ireland enjoys having because he gets to trust the board over the need to get a specific player which all the subsequent drafts became about.
Trying to plug that one hole. I shall restate my point.
Give Ireland more top 100 picks, and he'll give you quality talent. Force him to fill holes in the roster,and we tend to have a rougher go at it.