by Eric Edholm & Chad Reuter
Top 5:
(1) Houston Texans (A Grade)
(2) Pittsburgh Steelers (A Grade)
(3) Los Angeles Rams (A- Grade)
(4) Detroit Lions (A- Grade)
(5) Green Bay Packers (B+ Grade)
Bottom 5:
(28) Carolina Panthers (D+ Grade)
(29) San Francisco 49ers (D+ Grade)
(30) Dallas Cowboys (D+ Grade)
(31) Washington Commanders (D+ Grade)
(32) Denver Broncos (D Grade)
(27) New York Giants (C- Grade)
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Definitely need at least 2-3 years before a Draft Class can be fairly assessed. Not entirely clear what NFL.com's approach is, but they do list the number of games the rookies played in and/or started.
It is purely subjective.
What are the criteria that were used to create the ranking?
Is it based on performance, potential, starts, games played, statistics, etc.
Easy to say now. Did anyone forsee a 5th round pick in nacua doing what he did? No way.
Yeah hindsight it 20/20. If everyone knew Nacua would be as good as he was, he wouldn't have lasted till the 5th round.
Gray was a miss, and Hawkins is a big question mark IMO. But hell, those were 5th and 6th round picks.
As far as playing time, you also you really have to question the staff and their lack of getting Hyatt involved.
I also was pretty surprised how little playing time Jordan Riley got, considering how good he looked in preseason.
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Not a big fan of trading up which the giants did twice. Not sure that they could not have had Banks without trading up or that he is better than Joey Porter Jr. Hyatt is a good player but many good players were taken after him including Puka Nacua.
Easy to say now. Did anyone forsee a 5th round pick in nacua doing what he did? No way.
Seems like the Rams had a pretty good vision for it
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Not a big fan of trading up which the giants did twice. Not sure that they could not have had Banks without trading up or that he is better than Joey Porter Jr. Hyatt is a good player but many good players were taken after him including Puka Nacua.
Yeah hindsight it 20/20. If everyone knew Nacua would be as good as he was, he wouldn't have lasted till the 5th round.
In this case, yes hindsight is 20/20, in the case of not taking Micah Parsons, not so much.
As to what percentage of Giants college scouts (the ones who are on the road practically ever day during the fall) that Joe Schoen has turned over since he got here?
3 year grades do.
And behind the Steelers?
So a grading of a draft class a month after the season ends is somehow less meaningful that the plethora of draft grades that are assigned in the days after the draft is completed, sometimes on the evening of day 3???? I see this as a nice summary of how each teams class fared after their first season. Its my no means a final grade...takes 3 and sometimes even 4 seasons to get a true read on the success or failure of a draft class.