This is the part of the draft process that always baffles me. You’re saying a GM picking a man at 10 is wrong because a media member has that person ranked at 24?
If the GM pick them at 10, that means the GM has them ranked higher. But because we read the media members’ countless mock drafts somehow they are the experts and the GM’s are not?
Make that make sense!
As a sidebar to everything, I think people do forget that the draft in the shoes of a media member is fairly random. If you're the Bears, you have a very set criteria to develop a board specific to your team. They have entirely different methodologies, even nuances in the language. They more so talk in language of "immediate starter"... "future starter"... "future all pro" vs language like "3rd round pick".
But, if you're Jeremiah making a board, you're doing so in a way that's as generic as possible cause it's theoretically for any team to use. It's not real world though. Also, any big board can't see where a guy goes. Like take Bo Nix... if he landed on the Raiders last year, I'd say he probably would've sucked really bad and his career may reflect that. But he ends up with Payton and looks great. You can argue things like this happened to Geno Smith, Darnold, Baker, etc... luckily they broke through, but a lot don't.
So maybe, there's a gem of a player sitting there that becomes a bust cause he's simply picked to the wrong team at the wrong time. It would take super super special players to transcend all the factors out of their control. This year, it could be something like Sanders vs. Dart. Imagine Sanders goes to the Saints and Dart goes to the Rams. Who will be better? Now reverse teams... who will be better? I think we all agree the guy on the Rams is probably better.
