He's worthy of a top 10 pick, most likely. He's just not "worth" it, to me.
Looking at prior drafts, drafting Kotkaniemi and a guy like Alexeyev/Addison is worth more than drafting Dobson and Veleno, don't you agree ?
Or Pettersson/Mittlestatd and Timmins/Hague/Brook is worth more than drafting Makar/Heiskanen and Anderson Dolan.
At least, to me.
Its all potential upside, Byram is not more or less likely to hit his upside than Cozens or Dach. I doubt theres any relevance to year by year statistics when it comes to first round C's, there's just too many variables.
What is definable though, is that IMO, a 1C is more valuable than a 1D, and especially one that doesn't really control the play like say, McDonagh.