Originally posted by genus49:
Originally posted by bopicksix:
Originally posted by Waterbear:
Leo is not a high impact position?! WTF are you talking about. 
High impact in the sense of paying a high salary or investing significant draft capital. When you have a solid group up front, gamers in defensive backfield, you grab a 3rd-5th rounder or an undrafted Michael Bennett type to develop to play Leo. That position is icing on the cake and success there is a result of being stacked with talent.
i'm scratching my head at this post to the point of rawness...the amount of wtf in that post is pretty incredible.
1. There is no more impactful position in the NFL outside of QB than pass rusher. Just look at the players that just got franchised tagged and how many of them are pass rushers. Check how many top pass rushers in the NFL are non first rounders. Out of the top 20 guys last year in sacks the only guys not drafted in the first round were
Chris Jones
Danielle Hunter
Frank Clark
Calais Campbell
Demarcus Lawerence
Jarran Reed
Out of all of thsoe guys only Danielle Hunter was a 3rd rounder and a bunch of those guys dropped in the draft due to off the field issues like Chris Jones and Frank Clark.
2. Solid group up front? Where do you think DE plays?
3. Michael Bennett didn't play Leo. The league is different now and as you can see from point 1 pass rushers are not easy to find later in the draft for a reason.
4. When you're picking high you need to invest in positions which are not easy to find later in the draft or frequently available in free agency.
I just don't subscribe to this way of thinking, it's how you draft duds and miss on superstars.
As long as you haven't got a young, loaded and signed up position room every position bar FB, K and Punter is in play at every draft pick.
If you have players you evaluate that are close together, you use positional value and team need to separate them. Don't pass on elite for good.
If we hadn't have whiffed on Solomon we'd be drafting either Bosa or QW now and wouldn't bat an eyelid.
Also Carl Lawson would be on this list, and sacks are not the be all and end all.
If the best player on our board happens to be an edge rusher, great. If they grade out similar then fine. If not just draft the best player available.