BobDigital
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So I was reading this article
http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports...for-at-nfl-combine-from-patriots-perspective/
And point 4 really got my attention "Overall, since 2010, the Patriots have made 14 first or second round picks — of those, eight didn’t complete 100 percent of combine workouts due to injury."
This was kind of passed off as "they are not afraid to pick these players". I think differently. I think this is likely proof positive they target these players. More than perhaps any team with their top picks they seem to like to take risk with injured players who have talent but fall due to them.
If this trend holds true it tells me the Pats plan to draft an injured player if they fall below their natural draft stock. This is not truly news that injured players can be good value but considering it is 8 of 14 times in the past and perhaps was not possible some of those other times it comes off to be as a remarkable consistent trend.
With that in mind lets look at the most likely targets
Todd Gurley - RB (already made a thread about this)
Ifo Ekpre-Olomu - CB (slot CB)
Tevin Coleman - RB
Cedric Obbuehi - OT/OG (more of a OT than OG but has played OG before)
Any other injured guys that could fall I am missing?
http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/sports...for-at-nfl-combine-from-patriots-perspective/
And point 4 really got my attention "Overall, since 2010, the Patriots have made 14 first or second round picks — of those, eight didn’t complete 100 percent of combine workouts due to injury."
This was kind of passed off as "they are not afraid to pick these players". I think differently. I think this is likely proof positive they target these players. More than perhaps any team with their top picks they seem to like to take risk with injured players who have talent but fall due to them.
If this trend holds true it tells me the Pats plan to draft an injured player if they fall below their natural draft stock. This is not truly news that injured players can be good value but considering it is 8 of 14 times in the past and perhaps was not possible some of those other times it comes off to be as a remarkable consistent trend.
With that in mind lets look at the most likely targets
Todd Gurley - RB (already made a thread about this)
Ifo Ekpre-Olomu - CB (slot CB)
Tevin Coleman - RB
Cedric Obbuehi - OT/OG (more of a OT than OG but has played OG before)
Any other injured guys that could fall I am missing?