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2013 Draft Explained

Really cool article about the 2013 draft.

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2017/04/20/2...e-confounding#

Some nice bits of info - KC only had 2 or 3 calls about a possible trade the day before and none were serious. Some scouts are wary of Alabama players because they are so beat up before entering the NFL.

I can't think of a single Bama player that has turned into a legit star. Saban runs them into the ground before they can get into the NFL.

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The Chiefs had the first overall pick, but it wasn’t a golden asset. New general manager John Dorsey fielded only three or four calls from other teams the day before the draft—and none of the trade offers were very serious. There was no Andrew Luck to select at No. 1. Had there been, the Chiefs’ plan may have been very different. Instead, they traded with the 49ers for veteran quarterback Alex Smith in February, and in March they settled on drafting an offensive tackle as a building block for new coach Andy Reid. They took Eric Fisher, valuing his athleticism and upside even though he hadn’t faced top-tier competition at Central Michigan. “It was one of those things where, if you understood to have a degree of patience as an organization, that he would begin to hit his mark right around Year 3,” Dorsey says. Fisher has never made a Pro Bowl, but he’s started more games than any other top-10 pick from that year’s draft. Last year the left tackle signed a four-year, $48 million extension with Kansas City.

To put an absolute value on those selections, however, consider this: One AFC personnel executive said his team’s grades on all three of last year’s top offensive tackles—Ronnie Stanley (No. 6 to Baltimore), Jack Conklin (No. 8 to Tennessee) and Laremy Tunsil (No. 13 to Miami)—were well above Fisher and Joeckel’s marks.

Mark Dominik, the former Bucs GM, recalls there being maybe 14 true first-round talents in 2013. In an average year, he says, there are about 18. The good news for next week’s draft? “In a year like this, there are maybe 23,” says Dominik, now an analyst for ESPN. “If this ’17 class had a top-tier quarterback, it would be going down as one of the best classes in a long time.”

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 12834049)

I can't think of a single Bama player that has turned into a legit star. Saban runs them into the ground before they can get into the NFL.

Landon Collins is definitely a legit star. Plenty of others that are good and even some that are really good.

Man, it is nuts that the two highest picks we had in the past decade were both regarded as dry years for top end talent.

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 12834049)

I can't think of a single Bama player that has turned into a legit star. Saban runs them into the ground before they can get into the NFL.

you should look up a guy named Julio Jones I hear hes pretty good

Great article. Well worth the read.

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Originally Posted by mcaj22 (Post 12834086)

you should look up a guy named Julio Jones I hear hes pretty good

Can't believe I forgot about Julio too.

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Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 12834066)

Landon Collins is definitely a legit star. Plenty of others that are good and even some that are really good.

So two out of how many 1st rd draft picks?

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 12834195)

So two out of how many 1st rd draft picks?

I know he's a Raider and all but Amari Cooper definitely doesn't suck either.

2013? The year the Chiefs drafted Kelce in the 1st and Fisher in the 3rd?

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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief (Post 12834195)

So two out of how many 1st rd draft picks?

Hightower & Clinton-Dix