NFL Draft 2015: 8 instant reactions
By Will Osgood
The NFL Draft has come and gone, and we learned a few things this weekend about how this season might go and how the overall event went.
The 2015 NFL draft is over. We’ve digested a ton of information in a small amount of time. But we have also been hard at work for months preparing for this day. We can look at the 2015 NFL draft and give grades, which will of course always be subjective. It is based on our own work—what we think of prospects and how they fit into whatever team they went to in the draft.
We can look at entire teams’ drafts and digest them and spit out some kind of quick analysis, which will ultimately be proven true only over time—generally not for at least three years. But we like instant analysis. We like having a feeling of who did well, who did okay, and who, frankly, stunk up the draft process.
And, again, this will likely vary from person to person, as each person will believe something different. One person could look at say the New Orleans Saints’ draft and say they did incredibly well with each pick, while another could look at it and say the whole thing was terrible, while yet another person could say there were positive elements, while other picks were atrocious (which is the view I personally take).
But there are other elements. It’s not only about teams or players. It’s about league-wide trends. We’ll try to focus more on those here, as we are also producing team-by-team scorecards for each draft, which should be out over the next day or so.
Here we will attempt to look at the draft from a very broad perspective and see what we learned from the NFL at large this weekend. Trends will show teams really didn’t like quarterbacks in this draft, as was no shock to anyone. Or they really liked receivers and running backs.
It’s those kinds of things we’ll look at here.
Next: A not QB-friendly draft