What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Back?

[BillsImpossible]

That could easily happen.

"With the 10th pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, the Buffalo Bills select Leonard Fournette, Running Back LSU."

How would Bills fans react?

Probably the same way Cowboys fans reacted to their team drafting Ezekiel Elliot.

Do smart teams draft for need, or do they draft the best player available?

Uh oh.

Foursette is 6'1 240 lbs and he can catch too.

Nobody in their right mind would ever want to tackle him.

Shady isn't getting any younger. A player like Foursette would extend McCoy's career.

If Foursette is on the board after the top 2 safeties, CB, WR, LB and TE are off the board....what would you do?

Reach for a quarterback that you hope is great, or draft a player you know will be great?

[TacklingDummy]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

Running backs are dime a dozen. Only a moron drafts one in the 1st round.

It's a passing league now, it's not the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s.

[mdcas22]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

you draft him or trade down

[BLUTO]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

Stop - STOP !

[Mace]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

I believe BPA is a myth. It's just not a workable drafting strategy, but teams will always say they used it.

There are simply teams that can afford luxury picks and teams that can't. We can't, imho.

[BillsImpossible]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

Running backs are dime a dozen. Only a moron drafts one in the 1st round.

It's a passing league now, it's not the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s.

That's the recent trend, no doubt about it.

Had Marshawn Lynch been given the chance to win the Super Bowl a few years ago, that "passing league," sentiment wouldn't be so strong.

The NFL is cyclical. The pass is in, but sooner than later it will be out of style....again, mainly due to college football's infatuation with the spread offense.

It's only a matter of time until the NFL once again becomes a league built upon the run.

College football teams can make more money by not developing NFL franchise QB's.

Name the last QB that was selected in the 1st round of the NFL Draft that had an immediate impact?

Andrew Luck?

[BillsImpossible]

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I believe BPA is a myth. It's just not a workable drafting strategy, but teams will always say they used it.

There are simply teams that can afford luxury picks and teams that can't. We can't, imho.

I wouldn't call it a luxury pick, I would call it a drafting the best talent on the board pick.

If the top WR, TE, LB, S and CB are off the board at pick 10, why not draft a player you know will help score touchdowns?

[Luisito23]

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Running backs are dime a dozen. Only a moron drafts one in the 1st round.

True, but I'd take him over a DB all day, everyday.

[Mace]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

I wouldn't call it a luxury pick, I would call it a drafting the best talent on the board pick.

If the top WR, TE, LB, S and CB are off the board at pick 10, why not draft a player you know will help score touchdowns?

Well, it's pretty arbitrary saying the 2nd best cb, wr, and s aren't better than the best rb in terms of talent to begin with, because they well might be, and I think they are (which is also pretty arbitrary). And then, it becomes, well, we already have successful rb's. And we have a successful rb who is moody and not feasibly cuttable for another year. And we need people that stop people from scoring touchdowns and gaining yards to get maximum benefit from that successful rb.

Hence and forthwith, luxury pick.

Now if Fournette was a trebuchet, Imp...but alas...

[BillsImpossible]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

The NFL isn't a passing league, it's a scoring league.

Draft the best player that can help put points on the board.

The recent crop, or crap of rookie NFL QB's from the past decade does not bode well for the passing game.

If anything is out of style in the NFL, it's defense.

Sooner than later, run and stop the run will once again dominate the NFL.

[BillsImpossible]

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Well, it's pretty arbitrary saying the 2nd best cb, wr, and s aren't better than the best rb in terms of talent to begin with, because they well might be, and I think they are (which is also pretty arbitrary). And then, it becomes, well, we already have successful rb's. And we have a successful rb who is moody and not feasibly cuttable for another year. And we need people that stop people from scoring touchdowns and gaining yards to get maximum benefit from that successful rb.

Hence and forthwith, luxury pick.

Now if Fournette was a trebuchet, Imp...but alas...

Are the days of the trebuchet over my friend?

Seriously, besides Carr and Prescott, who is the latest and greatest gun slinging NFL QB out there today?

[TacklingDummy]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

That's the recent trend, no doubt about it.

Had Marshawn Lynch been given the chance to win the Super Bowl a few years ago, that "passing league," sentiment wouldn't be so strong.

The NFL is cyclical. The pass is in, but sooner than later it will be out of style....again, mainly due to college football's infatuation with the spread offense.

It's only a matter of time until the NFL once again becomes a league built upon the run.

College football teams can make more money by not developing NFL franchise QB's.

Name the last QB that was selected in the 1st round of the NFL Draft that had an immediate impact?

Andrew Luck?

Besides Tom Brady how many non 1st round winner/loser of the Super Bowl have had 1st round QBs?

[TacklingDummy]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

True, but I'd take him over a DB all day, everyday.

Would you take Mark Ingram Jr over Patrick Peterson?

[OpIv37]

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BPA is a luxury for good teams. Teams like us have too many holes to not try to fill them in the draft.

[TacklingDummy]

Re: What If The Best Player Available On The 2017 Draft Board At #10 Is A Running Bac

The NFL isn't a passing league, it's a scoring league.

Draft the best player that can help put points on the board.

The recent crop, or crap of rookie NFL QB's from the past decade does not bode well for the passing game.

If anything is out of style in the NFL, it's defense.

Sooner than later, run and stop the run will once again dominate the NFL.

Usually scoring by passing.

The Bills had one of the best running games in the league the past 2 years, where did that get them?