This is something I have always found funny about the draft process.
People take these media publications as gospel. If nothing was different about Dart’s play and the media had been telling everyone for months that this guy was a top 5 pick type of player, no one would be batting an eye at him being taken at 9.
But since he wasn’t, and he’s now “Rising up the boards” the way the media spins in, people hate the idea of grabbing him earlier than the media overlords said he should in the beginning of the process. It’s officially deemed a “reach” now to them.
Works in the opposite direction too. Every year there is a player that the media overlords have been pumping up as a top 15 to 20 player and they’ll still be there in round 3 and people will be champing at the bit at this “Falling” prospect that would be a steal (and generally these types of guys rarely pan out and it becomes clear that there was a reason he “fell”).