Poll: Biggest Redskins draft surprise

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Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Did anyone else notice that it seemed like they selected Barnes in the 3rd just as quickly? ESPN basically flashed from "The Redskins are now on the clock" to "the pick is in" in about 15 seconds.
I thought that was a little odd.

They probably already talked with teams about trades and didn't find anything that impressed them in moving. That and Cerrato mostly spoke about trade downs in the later rounds, didn't mention it too much in the mid rounds. If the guy we wanted was there and either 1) we didn't want to trade because we wanted the guy or 2) the offers weren't great.. then there's not much reason to waste time just sitting around.. sure people expect you to, but whatever.. we'd still have plenty of people bitching that we didn't pick their favorite mid to late rounder and about whoever we picked with the additional 5th or 6th that we got