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Seattle Seahawks GM has learned lesson from drafting for need
On the subject of the NFL Draft, there’s a long-running debate about whether or not it’s greatest for groups to draft primarily based on their very own private roster wants or to easily take the perfect participant obtainable. On Thursday, Seattle Seahawks basic supervisor John Schneider shared what he’s discovered from doing each in his profession.
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“Basically, we simply do a significantly better job once we simply decide the perfect participant,” he stated in the course of the weekly John Schneider Present with Seattle Sports activities’ Wyman and Bob.
Schneider defined his level through the use of a hypothetical situation involving two completely different positions.
Once you’re self-scouting, the analysis course of, reviewing the draft, you may get in conditions the place, you recognize, personally, I really feel like we’ve made some errors the place we’ve pushed gamers primarily based on want and what the draft appears like. So that exact class, say you’ve – I’m utilizing generalities right here and obscure phrases – however if in case you have one receiver on the board in a single spherical, after which there’s a spot of two rounds, and you’ve got 5 cornerbacks on the board in those self same two rounds, (the thought is) ‘Nicely, we must always simply go forward and take the receiver.’ Nicely, is the receiver actually the perfect participant, or is the nook the perfect participant with extra choices beneath him? And on reflection, over time, once we look again at pushing gamers up, you are able to do that primarily based on want since you say that man’s gonna step proper in and he’s gonna play. However is that actually correct if you’re evaluating the gamers?
Due to that, Schneider stated it’s necessary for the Seahawks to be thorough with their draft preparation.
“I feel you guys have heard me speak about there’s ledges all all through the draft, there’s gaps in every spherical, and it’s important to be actually cautious to not push a participant primarily based on a particular want or primarily based on what the numbers seem like in that particular draft,” he stated. “That’s why it’s important to be actually, actually trustworthy and in-depth in your research of what every class appears like, and know that, hey… possibly he actually is a fourth-rounder and also you made him a third-rounder.”
The ultimate John Schneider Present earlier than subsequent week’s NFL Draft will probably be Thursday, April 27, with a dialog between Schneider, Dave Wyman and Bob Stelton airing on Seattle Sports activities simply earlier than the primary spherical is ready to start at 5 p.m.
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