There have been some leaks that the scouting department said Pete would override John and the scouting team for early picks that turned out to be terrible. Who knows if its true or not. There are also rumors that this year Pete stepped back a little for this process and let John take the lead which if he did and they hit he deserves credit for.
Either way, our drafting for a while sucked. I remember Pete even blaming his poor drafting on picking late in the draft this year. Despite that rhetoric, there have been numerous pro bowl and all-pro players available for us to draft in the bottom half of the first round. Guys such as Watt who we could've had.
I think they just got too cute with their advanced metrics. I know Pete is really big on a certain metric, can't remember the name of it. All of the guys we drafted scored very high on that scale for the most part with the exception of Collier.
We just got too cute is what it all amounts to. This draft had a "back to basics" sort of feel to it. There was nothing cute about what we did, it was highly anti-climatic as far as Seahawk drafts go. Everything made perfect sense, no reaches, we drafted at positions of need, no cute picks thrown in. It was simple and brutally effective.
Hats off to Pete, and the FO for making all of the pivots that they needed to.
