2004: The draft we should be grading

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Handing out grades the day after the draft has always seemed a little silly, it's just a way for all the so called experts to show how much smarter they are than all the NFL GMs and scouts that poured their into lives into the entire draft process for the last 3-4 months.

Let's take a look at the 2004 draft, since we can actually grade that one more fairly now that those players have 2 full seasons under their belts. (I was going to go back to 2003 but since that is pre-Gibbs 2.0 I figured there's not much use in going there.)

Here's the 2004 draft class:

Sean Taylor - 1st round, 5th overall
Chris Cooley - 3rd round pick
Mark Wilson - 5th round pick
Jim Molinaro - 6th round pick

I would give Taylor a solid B or B+, the only thing holding back an A is the off the field crap and the spitting incident.

Cooley I would give an A. He's the best tight end/h-back, whatever you want to call him that we've had in a long time.

Wilson gets an F, did he ever catch on anywhere else?

Molinaro I would give an incomplete, he's still on the roster so that's a plus, but we really don't know what he's capable of since he hasn't seen much action.

So all in all, we came away from this draft with two starter with Pro Bowl potential.