5 Year Draft Review

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You can afford to miss on 2nd round picks in the NFL, as long as you factor that into your team-building philosophy. What you can't do is take a high risk, mid reward guy like Thomas, while trying to trade the remaining picks for 31 year old WRs, 34 year old DEs, or flavor of the month QBs. That's a good way to kill the margin of error that is inherent in the draft.

Under the current structure though, teams picking in the top ten or so can't miss. That contract is inclusive of the money that you could otherwise spend on a veteran to play the same position.