Re: Fuller vs. Rapp

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I've heard that if you find two starters in a draft, it was a good one. The Rams are already there with Akers and Fuller.

Whatever becomes of Lewis, Burgess, Jefferson, and Hopkins will be a bonus.

That's not much of a rule of thumb, dz. I'm pretty sure the Jets are gonna draft more than 2 starters next year. By that measure, terrible teams draft better than great teams pretty much every year. Akers was pretty clearly drafted to be an immediate or near-immediate starter, or at least to share time equally with Henderson. That he's doing that isn't a huge plus, not nearly as big a feather in their cap as Fuller displacing a player in Rapp they presumably were fairly high on. Especially since the Rams' cap sitch now dictates that they replenish their talent thru the draft, rather than free agency.

It's something I hear draft experts repeat every year.

But clearly it's easier for terrible teams to meet that criteria.

Which makes it all the more remarkable that the Rams, who are a good team, found 2 starters.

On another note, I don't know if it's just me, but I'm usually not that happy when a late round Fuller type displaces a previous earlier round pick like Rapp because that means that Rapp may end a largely wasted pick.

The 2020 draft grade goes up but the 2019 draft grade goes down. How much further ahead did we really get?

Especially since Rapp was gonna be cheap and not a free agent for a while. That's not really replenishing talent, it's more churning talent.

I'll give 'em love for Fuller because I think they really were high on Rapp. But Fuller is (even) better: an upgrade, not merely a churn. Upgrading already-solid talent thru good drafting? Kudos!

It's just not that remarkable that the Rams found 2 starters when one of them was drafted precisely to (largely) replace a departing starter in Todd Gurley. Especially since Henderson has been a bit dinged up. Akers would have had to be a significant disappointment, just as Jefferson would have been a significant disappointment, not to see the field.

Fuller is a different story.