Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Wasn't Cordarrelle Patterson a playmaker? I remember the hype for him on this board coming out. Being a "playmaker" does not give you a first round grade. Ty Montgomery is another playmaker. Would you pick him in the first?
If I think that he will continue to make plays on the next level, why not? the higher the round, the higher the expectation about the player.
IMO, first round guys are guys that are either once in a generation types, the dominant player at their position, very few flaws in their game while having elite talent/measureables, or no real faults in their game while posing great talent/measurables, and impact players at positions like QB or pass rusher (the positions that can instantaneously change a team around).
once in a generation types are picked within top10 if not even top5, imho.
You say it: posing great talent. If a team thinks that he is posing a great talent, he will be picked early.
As for Odell Beckham, I honestly do not ever remember him being ranked that low and I'd question any site that did. I always saw him as a mid teen to early 20s first round pick, which is why I had some hope that we could trade up and get him. If he was legitimately in the 40s, which means far outside of the first round, the Giants would've gotten slammed for reaching that much. I don't remember any of that happening.
IIRC, he was ranked relatively low pre-combine. He jumped during the off-season.