Could you have drafted better than the Skins FO?

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I have to preface this by saying that I'm infinitely more knowledgeable about the draft now then I was back in 2004. So I probably would have ignored my own current guidelines and gone more off what the experts said back then.

If I was in charge of the Redskins, we would have ended up with the following players (unadjusted for lessons learned, if only to be fair).

2004 - DT Tommie Harris
2005a - DE Erasmus James (seriously)
2005b - CB Ron Bartell
2006 - TE Anthony Fasano
2007 - QB Brady Quinn (DT A. Okoye, if Campbell is assumed)
2008a - DT Trevor Laws
2008b - WR Limas Sweed
2008c - G Jeremy Zuttah

So yeah, I don't actually know if that's better, necessarily. It's different, fo' sho.

I'm glad that you and others participated in my game. When I did my list, I discovered the same thing you did: The Skins FO has done a good job in picking players on the first day of the draft. I wouldn't have done any better, over a period of years.

Also, it seems to me that the Skins are improving at finding players in Rounds 3 through 7. I admit that they would beat me by default in those rounds.

The one thing that bothered me during this exercise was being reminded of the number of 1st and 2nd Round picks that the FO has traded away. Here we have a FO that has done a good job with the picks they've had but, IMO, they haven't placed the proper value on those picks. Holding on to those picks and drafting well would enable the Skins to continually refresh their roster and maintain a younger team.