[sportscurmudgeon]

GTripp:

You said:

"You also risk taking a player on the OL who isn't any good at all in the last few rounds, but I trust the college scouting department to get it right, and get us a guy who can start by his 2nd year in the league, like Chester."



As Hamlet said, "Aye! There's the rub..."

The Skins scouting department and the folks who "build the draft board" obviously were looking at Maryland in order to find Heyer. So, how did they miss Gaither? Did they not realize he was there? Or much worse, did they look at both of them and think Heyer was the better player? [shudder!]


The Ravens found good talent in low rounds; the Skins scouts/draft board mavens found Rheinhart and Dockery and a bunch of guys who never got to play - - not that Rhienhart has logged all that many minutes yet either.


If the Skins were skilled at or knew how to draft young linemen to develop into starters, the team would not be in the situation it finds itself in. I don't deny for a moment that talent for the OL is out there in the later rounds - - and even as undrafted free agents sometimes - - but the folks currently populating the Skins FO have shown exactly no ability to spot it and/or to sign it.


They haven't yet earned my trust...