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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
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!]
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I'm not sure it's an either or sort of deal. Gaither was drafted, Heyer was not. Sure, Gaither was very undervalued and Heyer was properly valued, but to lambast the Redskins for missing Gaither, you'd have to do the same to the 30 other teams that didn't get him in the first six rounds.
Heyer was a better find than most UDFAs in his own right. Heyer, and I think Thrash, Yoder, and Geisinger, are the only undrafted players on the Redskins' offense. By and large, this offense is made up of people who didn't slip through the cracks, so credit them for Heyer at least.