Overall draft grade

[Yellow31]

The draft stunk!!! Why was it not possible to use the #9 pick on what most had rated as one of the top 2 WRs in the draft in Williams and then use the late pick on the CB position which was one of the deepest in the draft. There is no problem with them picking Rogers I think everyone is in agreement on that but to use a 1st round pick on a QB who had 1 good year in college (can you say Ryan Leaf) when they already have a QB who has not even been allowed to play an entire season yet?????? Freaking stupid!!!!! When there are so many other positions where they have needs???

Every team that is decent in the NFL builds through the draft and complements their team with a few select FA and keeps their core players....Skins do the opposite and can't figure out why they don't win. Dan would you please get a clue and hire a real NFL GM and not one of your poker buddies...oh what the heck maybe one of your buddies will be better than Vinny!!! You finally got a real coach, now get a real GM!

After all that maybe I will be wrong and they will do well this year...Every other year I have liked their draft and they have stunk!!

[SC Skins Fan]

I completely agree with just about everything Yellow31 said. The Skins desperately need a seasoned personnel guy steering the ship, someone like Phil Savage who is now running the show in Cleveland. Though Coach Gibbs has brought the team just about any real success in living memory - at least mine - he just is not that guy. Like everyone else I have no problem with the Rodgers pick, except for the fact that Williams was somehow still on the board at #9. The Skins were ranked 30th in Offense last season, scored 15 points a game, and just could not get the ball in the end zone to save their lives. Williams would have provided an instant red zone scoring threat and could have scored double digit touchdowns in his first year.

The Campbell pick is also just baffeling, especially since they gave up next years #1 to move into position. I can't imagine that pick will be much higher than #15 and that is just an extremely steep price. To add insult to injury the Skins then passed on Fred Gibson, the WR from Georgia, in the fourth round. I thought that would have been a better pick than White, but hopefully he will prove me wrong.

I think that at this point you really HAVE TO bring back Rod Gardner for 2005, otherwise you will just have a couple of 5-9 guys in Patten and Moss - assuming he shows up sometime before next year - running down the field. I just don't get how it is possible that our recieving corps could actually take a STEP BACK from last season, but that is how it appears at the moment.

HTTR