Gotta love Riggo: Tells Vinny to go do radio fulltime

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Originally Posted by SouperMeister

In the prior 10 years, we spent high draft choices on Samuels, Jansen, and a few years before that, Cory Raymer and Tre Johnson. Yes, during this 10 year stretch, we got Randy Thomas and Casey Rabach as FA's in their prime, but other than drafting Dockery in the 3rd round, I can't think of another successful O-lineman that we've drafted since Samuels. The one year that Marty ran our draft, I thought that he made a fatal mistake when he passed on Steve Hutchinson and selected Rod Gardner. Samuels, Hutchinson, and Jansen would have been the 2nd coming of The Hogs.

I was thinking more along the lines of

1999-2009 drafts
Jon Jansen (1st)
Chris Samuels (1st)
Derrick Dockery (3rd)
Chad Rinehart (3rd)
Michael Moore (4th)
Mark Wilson (5th)
Derek Smith (5th)
Jim Molinaro (6th)
Reggie Coleman (6th)
Kili Lefotu (7th)

And I'll add Stephon Heyer and Edwin Williams because they may have been drafted in the 8-12 rounds of yesteryear. Plus trading for Pete Kendall and signing Rabach and Randy Thomas

1988-1998 (and I realize it's not exactly 10 years) Drafts

Andre Johnson (1st)
Tre Johnson (2nd)
Corey Raymer (2nd)
Joe Patton (3rd)
Moe Elewonibi (3rd)
Paul Sevier (3rd)
Greg Huntington (5th)
Mark Fischer (5th)
Brad Badger (5th)
Brian Thure (6th)
Darryl Moore (8th)
Henry Brown (10th)
Mark Schlereth (10th)
Matt Elliott (12th)

And the great trade for Jim Lachey. So in each time frame, 10 draft picks in the first 7 rounds. Of course, that doesn't justify the selections or the trades made that prevented us from even having the opportunity to draft more linemen. Just a quirkly little fact I suppose

The early 80s were probably worse. Beathard had some brutal picks and rarely went OL, but when he did he of course hit it big.