NFL Draft 2015: Day 2 Winners and Losers
By Will Osgood
The NFL Draft is entering it’s final day, but who ended up winners in the second and third rounds?
How do you take a draft night such as tonight’s which was so all over the board and make sense of it? How do you find eight teams who killed it, in the good sense?
That’s the task, because there’s some idea that eight is a magical number. We can cross off at least one team: the New Orleans Saints. After a brilliant offseason up to Friday, they took three Day two picks and wasted them.
Ha-I can’t even spell his name so why even try, the Washington outside linebacker, was somehow not the worst pick they had. That was Garrett Grayson, the Colorado State quarterback who wasn’t even one of the 10 best quarterbacks in this awful, terrible quarterback class.
And P.J. Williams, the cornerback from Florida State—well let’s just say Saints fans should be worried he’s just as bad as the last corner the Saints took from Tallahassee, Patrick Robinson.
There’s no reason to trash any other teams’ draft like that, since no one else’s was as atrocious. Nonetheless, the thing that stands out is that it’s nearly impossible to find one team who has scored with every pick they’d made thus far.
The San Diego Chargers have drafted solid players—except let’s pretend they didn’t draft Miami inside linebacker Denzel Perryman—but they’ve all been reaches, or in the case of the first-round when they traded up to get Melvin Gordon, out-thought. Gordon would have been there at 17, so just wait.
So there’s two teams who definitely did not earn high grades for the first two days of the draft.
Still there are some teams worthy of consideration. We may even find our way to eight. And remember this is only for Friday night’s selections. It has nothing to do with Thursday night’s first-round of the draft.
If it did, at least one team would not have made this list.
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