You can't draft on need alone.
Are there any pass rushers that have panned out that were available in the same spots as when we took Jacobs and Betts??
Let's take a look
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2002 2nd round results:
1(33) Houston Jabar Gaffney WR Florida
2(34) Carolina DeShaun Foster RB UCLA
3(35) Detroit Kalimba Edwards DE South Carolina
4(36) Buffalo Josh Reed WR Louisiana State
5(37) Dallas Andre Gurode C Colorado
6(38) Minnesota Raonall Smith OLB Washington State
7(39) San Diego Toniu Fonoti OG Nebraska
8(40) Jacksonville Mike Pearson OT FLORIDA
9(41) Cincinnati Lamont Thompson S Washington State
10(42) Indianapolis Larry Tripplett DT Washington
11(43) Kansas City Eddie Freeman DT Alabama-Birmingham
12(44) New Orleans LeCharles Bentley C Ohio State
13(45) Tennessee Clevan "Tank" Williams S Stanford
14(46) NY Giants Tim Carter WR Auburn
15(47) Cleveland Andre Davis WR Virginia Tech
16(48) San Diego (from Atlanta) Reche Caldwell WR Florida
17(49) Arizona Levar Fisher LB North Carolina State
18(50) Houston (Supplemental) Chester Pitts OT San Diego State
19(51) Denver Clinton Portis RB Miami (Fla)
20(52) Baltimore (from Washington) Anthony Weaver DL Notre Dame
21(53) Oakland (from Tampa Bay) Langston Walker OT California
22(54) Seattle Maurice Morris RB OREGON
23(55) Oakland Doug Jolley TE Brigham Young
24(56) Washington (from Baltimore) Ladell Betts RB Iowa
25(57) NY Jets Jon McGraw S Kansas State
26(58) Philadelphia Michael Lewis SS Colorado
27(59) Philadelphia (from Miami) Sheldon Brown CB South Carolina
28(60) Seattle (from Green Bay) Anton Palepoi DE Nevada Las Vegas
29(61) Buffalo (from San Francisco) Ryan Denney DE Brigham Young
30(62) Pittsburgh Antwaan Randle El WR Indiana
31(63) Dallas (from Chicago) Antonio Bryant WR Pittsburgh
32(64) St. Louis Travis Fisher CB Central Florida
33(65) New England Deion Branch WR Louisville
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If there's a pass rushing monster there please let me know, because I don't see one.
2003 2nd round results:
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1 33 Cincinnati Eric Steinbach G Iowa
2 34 Detroit Boss Bailey OLB Georgia
3 35 Chicago Charles Tillman CB Louisiana-Lafayette
4 36 New England Eugene Wilson CB Illinois
5 37 New Orleans Jonathan Stinchcomb OT Georgia
6 38 Dallas Al Johnson C Wisconsin
7 39 Jacksonville Rashean Mathis FS Bethune-Cookman
8 40 Minnesota E.J. Henderson ILB Maryland
9 41 Houston Bennie Joppru TE Michigan
10 42 Seattle Ken Hamlin FS Arkansas
11 43 St. Louis Pisa Tinoisamoa OLB Hawaii
12 44 Washington Taylor Jacobs WR Florida
13 45 New England Bethel Johnson WR Texas A&M
14 46 San Diego Drayton Florence CB Tuskegee
15 47 Kansas City Kawika Mitchell ILB South Florida
16 48 Buffalo Chris Kelsay DE Nebraska
17 49 Miami Eddie Moore OLB Tennessee
18 50 Carolina Bruce Nelson C Iowa
19 51 Denver Terry Pierce ILB Kansas State
20 52 Cleveland Chaun Thompson OLB West Texas A&M
21 53 N.Y. Jets Victor Hobson OLB Michigan
22 54 Arizona Anquan Boldin WR Florida State
23 55 Atlanta Bryan Scott SS Penn State
24 56 N.Y. Giants Osi Umenyiora DE Troy State
25 57 San Francisco Anthony Adams DT Penn State
26 58 Indianapolis Mike Doss SS Ohio State
27 59 Pittsburgh Alonzo Jackson DE Florida State
28 60 Tennessee Tyrone Calico WR Middle Tennessee State
29 61 Philadelphia L.J. Smith TE Rutgers
30 62 San Diego Terrance Kiel FS Texas A&M
31 63 Oakland Teyo Johnson WR Stanford
32 64 Tampa Bay Dewayne White DE Louisville
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Unless I'm missing something I don't see any pass rushing studs here either. So should we have just drafted someone because we needed a DE? Or was the smarter move to go with the highest ranked guy on our draft board?