Three thoughts on three things pertaining to the NFL Draft and its aftermath:
*A FOOLISH, USELESS ENDEAVOR: If you were a restaurant critic, would you do your review before tasting the food? Of course not. And that’s why you will never see a draft grade piece in this space. It’s a waste of time. Just as you can’t rate a restaurant before you eat your meal, you can’t rate a draft for at least two or three years, or perhaps even longer, after you see how the players pan out. You have no idea beforehand. The first overall pick could be a bust just as easily as Mr. Irrelevant could be a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Browns quarterback Brian Sipe was a 13th-round pick who didn’t make the regular roster for two years, didn’t really start to come into his own until the end of his fifth season and finally became the NFL Most Valuable Player two years after that. Ex-Cleveland wide receiver Reggie Langhorne was a seventh-rounder. On and on it goes. You just don’t know about the players, so you just don’t know about the draft.
*FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING: Before the draft, the quarterback room of the Browns was non-descript. Nobody was talking about it. Then, with the addition of Shadeur Sanders, everybody in the country was talking about it. It was the rage of both radio and TV sportstalkers everywhere. Training camp “tickets” will be almost impossible to get.
*AND FINALLY, RISKY BUSINESS: The Browns’barch rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, always seem to figure things out, except maybe when it comes to the quarterback position. Cleveland and Pittsburgh were battling neck-and-neck before the draft for the distinction of having the worst quarterback room in the league, but now the Steelers have stepped forward — or backward, as it were — into the lead by waiting until the sixth round, with the pick of Ohio State’s national championship passer, Will Howard, to address the problem. They kinda, sorta expect to sign Aaron Rodgers at some point, but there’s certainly no guarantee of that. If it doesn’t pan out, then they’ve really backed themselves into a corner. It’s a risk at a position where you can’t afford to have one.
Steve King
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