Not mad at all.
Ideally, we'd want to add to the defense. But drafts don't work that way. If you don't pick those players, who are you taking? This is kind of a weird draft. Outside of Will Anderson, there aren't a lot of really good "stud" defensive players. There are a lot of decent players -- but that pool is pretty thick.
On those specific players:
AR has tantalizing traits. He's a risk. But so are most QBs in the first round. If you are only willing to take a QB that has little risk, then you need to be prepared to have a 1-2 win season to secure him and do that in the right draft year. How many low risk QBs have there truly been in the last 10 drafts? Probably can't list 5 of them.
So to solve the QB riddle, you're going to need to take on risk and pay a heavy price. This is actually the draft to do that. Because the alternative players at other positions are really quite mundane prospects. It's not like we're passing on the next Cortez Kennedy to get a risk laden QB prospect instead.
The alternatives to a high risk, high reward QB in this class actually makes this pick quite sane.
Bijan Robinson. He's in my mind the best player at any position in this entire class. He's pretty close to Saquon Barkley coming out of college. If you pick him anywhere in the draft (including at #5), you're pretty much getting the best player in the draft on draft day.
He's really the one player in this draft that looks like he'll be a star the moment he gets into camp.
Washington is a good player. But really this is where I'd have a problem with this scenario. There are a LOT of really outstanding TE prospects in this draft. Washington isn't close to the only great inline TE prospect. I would keep draft stock (to add potential defensive players), and ride the depth of the TE class to get a pretty comparable TE alternative. Especially considering that TE is a medium/near term need, not an immediate need. If we had to walk away from this class, we still have it in our ability to retain an already strong group.
