This. Plus, the offseason begins with the free agency period, so coaches and FO's focus on that early in the offseason. DQ and AP have said around late Feb that they really hadn't focused much on the draft yet, but they were about to dig deep into it. The Sr Bowl was Feb 3, the combine and its interviews was Feb 29-Mar 3. All these things are why rankings change a lot in March and April.
I remember being really excited about Quinyon Mitchell in late January as a perfect pick for one of our 2nd rounders, then the rest of the world started paying attention to him and now he's universally a mid 1st round pick, out of our range.
Like this? AZ traded me their 4,27,35 for 2 and I traded 27,36 to Jax for their 17 and snagged Fuaga, then I smoked a cigarette and fell into a nice dream.
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