Re: Grading draft picks before they even suit up is silly

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Ramsdude

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JYB
Seems most of these grades measure players taken vs. where they were projected to go. The sheer number of players the rams got doesn't seem to get factored into the grade.

It's a waste of time to "grade" or "rank" anyone before they even played a single snap in the NFL and even then it can take 2-3 years before you can accurately "judge" anything.

Take these things with a grain of salt because that's about all they are worth!

Agree that the grades are generally meaningless. But my point is that the grading system only appears to measure player selection vs. perceived value. That is, they measure only what a team did with the picks it had -- not its class as a whole.

If a team had just five picks and all were perceived to have good "value," they get an A- or a B+. The Rams were said to have had a number of players of good value (or even a "steal" in the case of Tomlinson), and a couple of "reaches". And most of the grades were based on such evaluations. But it seems these grades don't account for the sheer number of players the Rams got, which was significant. If I'm grading a draft, that would be a very important factor in my grading system.