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Are you saying that Ballard read the landscape and decided it was safe to trade down to 52 and still get ADM? Nothing in his interview supports that. Whose to say that if Ballard trades down once again because he thought no team would take a WR in the 2nd, that a team like SF now sees value in ADM, and possibly reevaluates and pushes to trade Deebo or Ayiuk. Teams, draft boards can change as the draft is happening, and Ballard is right to say that nobody knows how this stuff will play out. He doesn't know that another team won't trade up to 53, or 47 for that matter. -
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Ranked on their draft boards or ranked in terms of being an NFL prospect? Yes, those aren't the same things. In terms of NFL prospects, yes, I think all teams have pretty much the same 250 players ranked in pretty much the same order. That's what the "Top 100 prospects means". Its prospects. Of course, they are more certain about the players they have ranked highly than the players they have ranked lower. The margin of error for the lower players is higher than it is for the higher players, so there is a chance that a player with a 7th round grade by one team gets selected in the 5th round by another, over a 5th round ranking guy getting selected in the 3rd round by another. I'd wager that teams have their top 25 ranked pretty much the same. I'm speaking in terms of understanding the players' attributes, talents, Character risks, and abilities to play in the NFL...which is NOT the same as their draft boards...meaning who they might want to actually draft. Draft boards would be based upon those attributes combined with the uniqueness of the teams, So even though a team may think Marvin Harrison is the number 1 prospect, they may choose to pick their number 12 ranked prospect guy JJ McCarthy. Knowing talent and needs, they probably have JJ higher on their Draft board than MHJ. But no, I do not think that each team knows how the other 31 teams have their draft boards ranked, with any degree of certainty. I think every GM had ADM ranked as a prospect the same as every other, in terms of risks, talents, etc. The team that actually picked him has unique reasons for picking him. And if you put almost ay other GM in the place of Ballard at the time, who understands the Colts, he would have picked ADM for the Colts too. And they too would have felt lucky that their, say, 35th ranked prospect was still available at pick 52. Ballard said that "nobody has any idea how this stuff plays out" Its not my opinion to argue with. I'm trying to help those on the forum understand what he's saying, even if it conflicts with the opinions they've held for years. So you judge the validity of a post based upon consensus? That's all you got? Yeah, ok, the consensus apparently does not agree with me. Big deal.
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