This is gonna be a little tough to express and I'm about to step out, but I challenge the notion that Eiserman "fell". One, I don't really believe in that concept because as SI90 mentioned and hopefully most folks know by now - draft boards are way different from people on the inside. People that are actually doing the work, wildly different. For some reason, the misguided idea of "consensus" rules here - or is at least at the podium - and it doesn't make much sense. Now, yes, Celebrini was the consensus #1 - that's not what I'm talking about.
It's part of the danger of making a list too early. Putting a number value to the left a guy in September has no benefit. I know he was really high on Bob's pre-draft list and all that. It's fine, I get that. But I don't think he ever belonged there. And then some folks got stuck in the anchoring bias of that and couldn't get off of it.
There were very few instances in the season where I had Eiserman as a first round pick and I'm not alone in that. I will say that I'm in the minority with that, but not alone. So from that perspective, the Isles "reached" (another fun term used sometimes) haha
I just don't think Cole Eiserman possibly staying out of the pros for half a decade or whatever was a factor in him "falling" (allegedly) - I think he went where he went and it's about right.