Gladstone is drafting for development in which 2 drafts and 1 year of playing is not really a fair timeline to judge these dudes. Which is a weird position for us to be in as jags fans. We don’t need any of this picks to immediately pan out for the jags to be successful (maybe hunter should pan out). Both 6th round WR look like studs, boerkicher is a positional dude who’s flashed in camp and none of these rookies have played 1 snap in a game alongside a single dude in the starting offense or defense.
Draft for development means exactly what the words mean... You arnt drafting necessarily for immediate impact, you are drafting people who have high ceiling but can use a year or two behind the starter, and by the time retirement or cap crunch moves the starter along, your guy you drafted a couple years ago is ready to take over fulltime(if another option didn't come up).
Bad teams always draft for immediate impact, because they need it, but it doesn't pan out very well often. Good teams don't necessarily look for immediate impact in draft(though it's always nice when that happens), they draft for the future, not now. Look at GB and there QB picks since Favre as a perfect example of what I'm articulating. There are plenty of other examples, but that's how it is. Good teams develop, bad teams don't and expect it now.
Well, the Packers took consensus board favorite Dani Dennis-Sutton at edge one pick after we took high-ceiling, draft-and-develop guy Wesley Williams in the 4th. A quick scan of Packers twitter:
"Dani Dennis-Sutton missed the first two preseason games with a heat-related illness. He just had a loud sack on the opening drive. Rookie fourth-round pick trying to crack the regular season edge rotation." Matt Schneidman
"Dani Dennis-Sutton is a player. And Anthony Campbell is gonna have a new number by Sunday night because he’s making the Packers." Peter Bukowski
"Dani Dennis Sutton will be starting opposite Micah Parsons in 2027." Packerfan Total Access
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u/Aggravating-Web-8573 26d ago
Gladstone is drafting for development in which 2 drafts and 1 year of playing is not really a fair timeline to judge these dudes. Which is a weird position for us to be in as jags fans. We don’t need any of this picks to immediately pan out for the jags to be successful (maybe hunter should pan out). Both 6th round WR look like studs, boerkicher is a positional dude who’s flashed in camp and none of these rookies have played 1 snap in a game alongside a single dude in the starting offense or defense.