True, but Payton also tried the rest of his career to find a Colston, but never was able to duplicate it. Colston was an outlier, not something you can count of getting latter in the draft when you've been sucking for a few years.
I don't disagree. I don't have an issue with drafting a WR or RB for that matter if they really are BPA regardless of how many times you have tried and failed drafting WR high. I mean Cooks and Olave were/are good players, but neither really turned out to be worth the picked used on them. But I don't buy the idea that you stop drafting them because you have missed before and I don't buy the idea that you stop drafting OL/DL because you have missed before and still have a sheetty OL and DL. So, if it turns out that OL or DL is BPA at #9 you take them.
The truth is that it was Payton that pushed for Marcus Williams and Payton Turner and he is gone now. And if he did it based on DA saying they would be good, DA is gone too.
The last two picks we spent on DL/OL - Breese and Fuaga - have actually worked out pretty well.