payitforward wrote:A couple of other things:
1. This thread should be locked the moment the pre-season begins.
2. If you don't list your picks in this thread, we should assume you approve of Will's draft as is.
The reasons for these provisos should be obvious -- at least I hope so!
I can't remember what I thought with the third pick, I know the two guys I was highest on at slot were Sarr at 2, who we took, and I think Collier, and to a lesser extent Dadier.
I didn't really care about Bub much one way or the other, and was rather surprised at how excited people were about him.
Now, consider me very excited, I had no idea this was coming.
George was someone who just didn't sound like something I wanted at all, which is funny because it was the most superficial and instinctual of "oh this sounds like the most typical of busts" and I barely put in any research at all to figure out if there was anything I was missing.
Now I'm watching things play out and am so so so happy with the latter two picks because at least in my view, both seemed like 25-40% chance of hitting picks in one case, and the other even worse and probably more 10-25%, and I think they hit with both of them. I don't know to what degree, but both can clearly play in the league, clearly belong, which in retrospect, after picks like Brown and Johnny Davis, is no mean feat lol.
Quite ecstatic with those selections, at worst they seem like a borderline starter in Bub, and in George, at least a rotational piece that can earn some minutes for sure.
As for Sarr, it's been interesting to read the talk on him. Of the players available when we picked the only guys I was interested in were Sarr, or a trade down for Topic or Salaune. I just wouldn't have taken Shepard, dillingham, the others etc that high. I want a bigger swing on the pick. But regardless, w/Sarr, I'm actually a lot more excited than some, for a guy that's regarded as so raw he's borderline worthless for now as an offensive weapon, he's been genuinely intereting and impactful in games.
What shocks me most is that I think we got 3 genuine worthwhile pieces in what was a just god awful draft. Quite happy w/that, as I viewed this class as one that would contribute little to nothing meaningful to the rebuild, that '25, and '26 were the classes that mattered, and '27 if we got nothing at all out of '24. To come out of 24 w/probably a starter in Bub, a potential starter or key reserve in George, and a guy with a reasonable floor and a genuine ceiling in Sarr is great (at least to me). Definitely seems like they did much better than I would have, at least so far anyway, and I'm pretty confident they did a very good to superb job.
