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*** Official 2017 NFL Draft Thread *** Bears pay a steep price for their franchise QB (2 Viewers)

bostonfred said:
Which spots do you like?   I'll give you Davis in Tennessee.  Then what? Is Jacksonville the second best landing spot anyone had? 
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I'm with you on this one. I actually thought every RB had a bad landing spot and every major first round WR except Davis landed poorly.

Because they all had such terrible landing spots, IMO anyway, none of them suffered a big ranking drop or anything but still a stunningly awful scenario of bad landing spots.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
Fournette, McCaffrey, Mixon, Cook all went to good spots where they'll be the starter.

Davis of course. I'm not afraid of LAC's depth chart, so I like Williams or Cincinnati so I like Ross. JJ-SS is in a great spot for a #2.

Watson will start sooner rather than later in Houston.

Howard, Njoku, and Engram are all in line to start.

:shrug: I'll take all the 1sts that people don't want.
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I'm fine with Davis, Fournette, and Mixon.  I'd have liked to see Cook go to a team with a better OL, that is a disaster zone up there, but mostly stud talents will stud so I trust that.

I'm mostly lamenting the 2nd tier guys' spots.  I'm not worried about premium talents, I'm talking about the guys that have a lot of potential but need a little help to ascend beyond their base talent.  Putting a solid RB in a dynamic offense like Indy, or a WR to BAL or PHI where there's a huge opportunity to be a target hog. There were so many ways some of these guys could have come out looking solid gold, and none of them did:

Mike Williams - Lot of mouths to feed in that offense, and Rivers isn't young with no successor lined up. 
John Ross - How big will they make that passing offense, especially now with Mixon?  He's not taking touches from AJG.
David Njoku - Browns.  Enough said.  Until they aren't they are.
JuJu Smith-Schuster - Big Ben is old and considering moving on, they have no successor lined up, and JJSS is never going to contest AB as bigdog in that offense.
Alvin Kamara - AP may be on his last leg, but the coach is married to RBBC concept.  He'll never get the backfield to himself
Chris Godwin - He got Evans'd.  It takes a massive offense to support two fantasy WR's, but he also has a couple of TE's and a QB that looks to love using them.
Carlos Henderson - oh what could have been putting him in BAL or KCC and feeding him the ball.  Mahomes might even turn out to be good.
Curtis Samuel - I have no idea what to make of CAR now but there are only so many gadgety plays they can run and he now has to fight CMc for them.
D'Onta Foreman - Would have loved him in Oakland or Washington
ArDarius Stewart - Obvious QB concerns for at least a year, maybe they get Darnold. 
Zay Jones - Buffalo is probably actually a decent spot for targets, just had so much more potential in Philly or something.
Taywan Taylor - Probably a pretty limited ceiling anyway, this is the guy I would have liked to see in PIT.  Suck up all those targets across from AB.
Kareem Hunt - What's big and red and goes round and round and round and round?  Big Andy Reid's RBBC.

One of my primary strategies is to load up on rookie picks, keep the earliest ones, and then when the hype is largest, sell them off for vets on draft day.  This draft just crushed most of those chances.  I'll keep Mixon and Davis, probably a Cook and a Fournette or two, but the hype/oversell dreams just took a huge hit.

 
So nfl.com and espn.com both show: 

10(117)Rams (From Bears through Bills)Reynolds, JoshWR6'3"194Texas A&M5.6

12(118)EaglesHollins, MackWR6'4"221North Carolina5.5

What happened to 4.11?  I need info here!   See what I did there?

 
Arodin said:
So nfl.com and espn.com both show: 

10(117)Rams (From Bears through Bills)Reynolds, JoshWR6'3"194Texas A&M5.6

12(118)EaglesHollins, MackWR6'4"221North Carolina5.5

What happened to 4.11?  I need info here!   See what I did there?
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Bears trade up with Rams for DL help




Bears receive:
» 2017 fourth-round pick (112): Eddie Jackson, S, Alabama

Rams receive:
» 2017 fourth-round pick (No. 117): Josh Reynolds, WR, Texas A&M
» 2017 sixth-round pick (No. 197):

Oh, nevermind, I see what you mean. Thought you were looking for trade details.

 
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Arodin said:
So nfl.com and espn.com both show: 

10(117)Rams (From Bears through Bills)Reynolds, JoshWR6'3"194Texas A&M5.6

12(118)EaglesHollins, MackWR6'4"221North Carolina5.5

What happened to 4.11?  I need info here!   See what I did there?
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Who got a pick taken away?  Giants had their 4th dropped from like 23 to 33 or something like that, so it's not them.

 
Arodin said:
So nfl.com and espn.com both show: 

10(117)Rams (From Bears through Bills)Reynolds, JoshWR6'3"194Texas A&M5.6

12(118)EaglesHollins, MackWR6'4"221North Carolina5.5

What happened to 4.11?  I need info here!   See what I did there?
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Think the pats lost this pick for deflate gate. Think it was cooks and a 4 for 1.32

 
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steeler6 said:
Think the pats lost this pick for deflate gate. Think it was cooks and a 4 for 1.32
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The story that never dies!

Still, you'd think they'd renumber them.  It's not like the Patriots made an 11th pick who then got thrown back into the free agent pool...Hollins was the 11th player taken that round.

Wierd.

 
Arodin said:
The story that never dies!

Still, you'd think they'd renumber them.  It's not like the Patriots made an 11th pick who then got thrown back into the free agent pool...Hollins was the 11th player taken that round.

Wierd.
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I think the way they did it is probably best. That way when you read how the Saints traded the 11th pick to the Pats somewhere and go check draft results, you'll see that exact pick wasn't used.  But the overall # selection (pick 118) in the draft reflects who was actually taken by picks.

 
Schefter: Jake Butt getting $10k for each pick he isn't taken from his insurance policy.  Up to $300k from when it kicked in so far, maxes at $2m.

 
Is there any talk about Nathan Peterman having slid this far?  There was buzz about him the last week or two, some analysts had him in the top 4 or 5 QBs.  Just a case of the buzz being wrong, or is there some issue that is keeping teams away that anyone has heard of?

 
GregR said:
Is there any talk about Nathan Peterman having slid this far?  There was buzz about him the last week or two, some analysts had him in the top 4 or 5 QBs.  Just a case of the buzz being wrong, or is there some issue that is keeping teams away that anyone has heard of?
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He's the 2nd coming of Tom Savage?

Savage inexplicably got "1st round buzz" before eventually going in round 4.  Peterman always struck me as the same kind of "not really spectacular at anything, good enough to hold a clipboard" player.  We're getting into the range where he belongs, imo.

The surprise so far was Beatherd going so far ahead of him.

 
GregR said:
Schefter: Jake Butt getting $10k for each pick he isn't taken from his insurance policy.  Up to $300k from when it kicked in so far, maxes at $2m.
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 How bad is that knee? Figured he be gone by now even if the 2017 season is a redshirt year.

 
I really like the valley girl accent on the zoo announcer.  It really adds something to the presentation.  That said the Colts Orangutan is addressing the Colts position of need better than my teams GM.  I wonder if he is available for hire. 

 
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