Based on that logic the Seahawks should take Bijan Robinson at #5. Positional value doesn't matter, so long as they are elite players.
Positional value is a factor, and Centers are the easiest Offensive Line position to find. Routinely studs are drafted in the 2nd and 3rd rounds that can come in immediately and make an impact. It is what it is.
I'd be shocked if Seattle took one in the 1st round. If they did, he must be a helluva player, because the Seahawks have never really valued Center like that, either.
I guess positional value matters and it doesn’t matter at times, it depends on how productive that player ultimately ends up.
Ultimately, on the field every snap, every 11 man, matters, right?
If you find a player and draft them day 3 and they become great players, that value is obviously there and you may or may not have gotten lucky with that pick. Most teams that didn’t draft them would probably say you got lucky.
I guess that’s what you are ultimately searching for, getting the best players for the lowest cost.
I think this strategy works really well if you happen to have a lot of holes and just need talent for every position.
Seattle is now somewhat in a place where they can add to specific position groups and if the talent is there, do they really want to take the chance to draft them “later?”
This said player could put them over the edge, but they are willing to risk it, just because the positional value isn’t valued then and there.
At the end, you do value them cause that’s what you are searching for, but you don’t want them at that price.
For every one Tariq Woolen, Schneider finds, he may draft 4 Jimmy Staten’s.
I’m just saying, if you like a player that much, but their position doesn’t dictate you drafting them there (why, cause NFL doesn’t think so, or the GM just wants to get them at the lowest price possible?).
You may ultimately not find a player of that caliber for some time. Couldn’t you just have used that higher pick previously, and we wouldn’t have this issue of finding a talented player now?
Seattle hasn’t found a player of Max Unger’s caliber for some time now, I don’t think finding Centers is as easy as the next draft will have them and so on and so on cause they are in such an abundant supply. If that’s the case, most teams would have solid centers, easily.
If it was that easy, Seattle, would have add a successor to Unger and then another successor center to that one that played after Unger.
But we never know each year.
Seattle is by far the hardest team to predict what they will do each draft.
