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Didn't know that about Elam. The only thing I saw was his pick against the Chiefs and how tall he looked.We had to trade up though for Thornton with the ammunition we built by trading down, so not sure we get Pickens at all. Plus, I think the Steelers really wanted Thornton since their WR coach is his former coach at Baylor.
Elam was beaten out as starter by their 6th rounder Benford, which speaks well for Benford, or perhaps poor for Elam.
M. Jones was very highly regarded--as soon as he was taken, there was a run on CBs.
The draft is so hard. I personally wanted Devin Lloyd with the first pick, but you probably miss out on Strange and Thornton if you stay put with Lloyd.
As for when a guy gets picked in the draft, I'm pretty clueless. I follow the guys who DO have a clue, and as we have see so many time, most of the time even THOSE guys don't have a clue. So my post about an alternative draft is pretty much pure guess work.
All I know is that universally people thought we overdrafted pretty much every pick we had from Strange to Thornton, to MJones, to the 3 4th rounders. But even though we still won't have a clue for another few years, so far so good. All I know is that we want them to keep getting better. Look how long it took before Wise became an impact player.