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When has the shotgun approach to a draft position actually worked for the team? 

In '05, four db's were drafted, one of whom was Nick Collins. The other three: Marviel Underwood, Michael Hawkins, and Kurt Campbell.

Nick was awesome. The other three? Wasted picks. Maybe Underwood was a good special-teams player.

In 1999, Ron Wolf's well-known shotgun draft was ok, at best. Four players were drafted:

1) Antuan Edwards

2) Fred Vinson

3) Mike McKenzie

7) Chris Akins

The 2014 draft is the closest analogy to a successful shotgun draft at WR, netting us Davante Adams, Jared Abbrederis and Jeff Janis.

2006, we landed Greg Jennings, but the other two players? Cory Rodgers, and Will Blackmon.

2000? Horrible. Anthony Lucas, Joey Jamison, and Charles Lee.

The point I'd like to make is this: let's make sure we're doing everything we can to scout and evaluate properly, rather than simply rolling the dice and hoping we hit on a few guys. By overlooking other positions, you could argue it set the team back numerous times.

 

 

Last edited by Packmeister
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