2012 Draft Grades: Post Here

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Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Not going to pull a premature, meaningless letter out of a hat without seeing any of these guys play for us, but I like this year's draft. Past RGIII, it's not as exciting as last year's haul, but we addressed every need with quality depth, if not future starters.

We hit QB obviously, as well as backup QB (one more year with Rex on bench). The trend in the NFL of developing a backup and trading away for a haul has been paying off handsomely for teams lately. Lets jump in on that action, or hang onto him as a great backup.

O-line was hit at all three positions, G, T and Center (Gettis likely).

We added depth at CB and S.

Since Hightower has not signed yet, we added another RB to go with Helu and Royster. If Hightower comes back (hopefully), we can bulk this guy up to be a backup FB.

LB, specifically London's backup and heir...another Texas Longhorn LB. They've been churning out quality DEs and LBs for a while now, as we know very well.

We took a very limited number of picks and not only increased the number of picks through trades, but we addressed every single "urgent" positional need.

This draft can only be graded as a big success in terms of filling needs. We'll find out how good these guys are later but from a strategic standpoint...we did the best we possible could have.

The Cousins pick SHOCKED and confused me at first but then I remembered we had Rex as RGIII's backup and the more I think about the pick, the more I like it.

Really good synopsis over all and I agree with mostly all of what you said. I take slight issue with what you noted as 'a very limited number of picks', we had a full draft even with the trade since we entered into the draft with 7 picks. We're so conditioned to have limited drafts and poor development of picks I think we suffer from PCSD (Post Cerrato Stress Disorder) and feel like our picks have to be hits right away. Hopefully our draft picks from '11 (Thompson and Gomes) make a contribution this year to mitigate some of our issues and maybe even Robinson bringing something to the WR position so our weaknesses become strengths from within.

This draft was more of the same, future planning with impact from a couple of rookies.