NFL: ***2022 NFL Draft Thread***

NorthCyd

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All I want is for him to go to a decent organization. That leads to a successful career as much as anything else IMO, and it makes it much more fun to cheer for.
 

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Uh no. He is not in the upper echelon of wide receiver talent like any of those tonight. He’s a good receiver but he’s just not like those dudes

I meant drafted at all, not drafted first round.

If they keep taking wrs like this they’ll have a ton that seem like lesser players to my untrained eye.
 

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Not good for the program that Hall did not great drafted in the first round, even though everyone said he graded out as a first round pick.
The value of a running back in the NFL is just not high right now, so you can get pro bowl running backs in the 2nd and later rounds. Many teams just do not see enough value nor need to take a player like Hall in the 1st round.

The lack of a first round draft pick for ISU continues, when is it ever going to end?
It will end when we fix the offensive line.
 

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Will McDonald is probably our best bet for next year. Depends on how his final year turns out.
Frankly, Penning owned him when they matched up so I have a hard time thinking McDonald is a first round guy.

The sack that he got in that game was McElvain rolling directly into his arms.

There's no doubt he's an NFL guy but I don't see the first round.
 

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It will end when we fix the offensive line.
Maybe we need to start looking over at EIU and who they are taking on the O line, or maybe even UNI. For EIU they love kids that wrestle and a good at it, that have the size to grow into an O lineman.

Take the kid that plays at 225 and is 6'3 in high school, thinking he will grow and put on weight, but is athletic and can move as opposed to the bigger high school kids that have the size but are limited in talent or skill.
 

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Frankly, Penning owned him when they matched up so I have a hard time thinking McDonald is a first round guy.

The sack that he got in that game was McElvain rolling directly into his arms.

There's no doubt he's an NFL guy but I don't see the first round.

Thibedeaux was a non factor in our bowl game against Oregon and he went 5th. **** off
 

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I dont understand the NFL hatred towards RBs. When the good ones light up the scoreboard on sundays they sure care. Last time I checked, in order to win a game you need to score more points than the opponent.
A good RB will score more TDS than most WRs.
 

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All I want is for him to go to a decent organization. That leads to a successful career as much as anything else IMO, and it makes it much more fun to cheer for.
I hate to say it, but it probably won't happen. Jets have the 35th and 38th pick. Texans have the 37th...Atlanta picks at 43..Philly has the 51st pick which would probably be his best bet, but I don't see how he escapes the Jets at the 38th selection..
 
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Maybe we need to start looking over at EIU and who they are taking on the O line, or maybe even UNI. For EIU they love kids that wrestle and a good at it, that have the size to grow into an O lineman.

Take the kid that plays at 225 and is 6'3 in high school, thinking he will grow and put on weight, but is athletic and can move as opposed to the bigger high school kids that have the size but are limited in talent or skill.
We can recruit the latter guys but we have a coach that frankly doesn’t seem very good at developing them
 

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Maybe we need to start looking over at EIU and who they are taking on the O line, or maybe even UNI. For EIU they love kids that wrestle and a good at it, that have the size to grow into an O lineman.

Take the kid that plays at 225 and is 6'3 in high school, thinking he will grow and put on weight, but is athletic and can move as opposed to the bigger high school kids that have the size but are limited in talent or skill.

The walk-on Olineman from western Iowa is a really good wrestler.
 

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I dont understand the NFL hatred towards RBs. When the good ones light up the scoreboard on sundays they sure care. Last time I checked, in order to win a game you need to score more points than the opponent.
A good RB will score more TDS than most WRs.
I get it, teams don't rush as much as they used to anymore and RBs these days have a short shelf life regardless. There's also a lesser impact (if not absence of) "bellcow" RBs in the modern game with more and more teams using a variety of rotations at the position. RBs just aren't a great use of first-round draft capital anymore.
 

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Does that money help, you? Iowa State? Anyone? That length of contract? I realize what you are saying. But in reality those things only help that one person. Iowa State having a First rounder is just a feather in their cap, but having several well known starters/Pro bowlers in the NFL might mean more as far as recognition. But in the long run, saying we produced NFL talent in multiple positions at starter levels, regularly vs a singular 1st rounder every so often probably a better tool.
You think not getting a first round draft pick in the last 40 years doesn’t reflect badly on the program, and doesn’t hurt our ability to recruit? GTFO
 

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I hate to say it, but it probably won't happen. Jets have the 35th and 38th pick. Texans have the 37th...Atlanta picks at 43..Philly has the 51st pick which would probably be his best bet, but I don't see how he escapes the Jets at the 38th selection..
The Jets traded some of those, They only have 38 left in the 2nd from what I see.
 

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Why didn’t the pats trade back their pick. No one was taking the Chattanooga dude. Horrible job by them.
 

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Is this the last long ugly streak of significance for ISU? Like going decades without beating OU in football or at Kansas in basketball?

I don't spend much time worrying about this one, at the same time it's a real statistical fluke never to have had one all that time. For whatever reason, ISU just doesn't produce fluke successes the way other places do.

It’s kind of like us being successful in basketball over the last 12 years. Plenty of teams with less success have made it to elite 8s and final 4s. And we haven’t. But we’ve been very successful over that time period.
 
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