Washington Redskins 2010 NFL Draft Grades

With McNabb, Carriker, and Jarmon in the evaluation too, they should deserve higher than a C (in my opinion).

He works for the Dallas news. The same thing with Matt Mosely on NFC East blog at ESPN.com. They will always bash the Redskins at every attempt they can.

I give the Skins a C+. I see the pick of Selvish Capers in the 7th as a steal.

People who question the pick of ‘Silverback’ over Okung need to look at the supporting cast willing to help him get better. Chris Samuels is an intern at Redskins Park will show him how it’s done in the NFL (he was even there when Williams got drafted!). Orakpo will make Williams hit the weights and make him better on the field.

They had rankings of each draft for their strategies, not necessarily their players. Skins came out well there, tied for 4th overall in the league. This included the McNabb deal, Jarmon, the Carriker deal, and the trade down. It’s still a metric that’s not entirely fleshed out, but I think it made sense, which is an important first step when you develop these sorts of things.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft10/insider/news/story?id=5132930

Had to be a hectic week.

Under Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen, the Redskins have become much more strategic in their personnel operations and have built the team with more precision, securing Donovan McNabb from a division rival for a relatively low price and beginning to build around him. The first piece added in the draft was OT Trent Williams(notes), who fit the Redskins’ zone-blocking scheme perfectly. The Redskins’ second-rounder was shipped to Philadelphia for McNabb, along with a conditional fourth-rounder next year, and the third-rounder was sacrificed in the 2009 supplemental draft for developmental DE Jeremy Jarmon(notes), who could help outside in Jim Haslett’s "30" front. ILB Perry Riley(notes) was a solid addition in the fourth round. TE Dennis Morris(notes) could bring value as a wham blocker. WR Terrence Austin(notes) could help in the return game. Their final two picks – C Erik Cook(notes) and OT Selvish Capers(notes) – are developmental zone blockers. To find the two most important pieces of Shanahan’s offense via the draft – McNabb and Williams – gives the Redskins’ draft more credence than it has had in a long time, and Shanahan did a fine job of matching talent to his scheme.
Grade: B-minus

I thought that with holes at OL, RB, and FS, we would’ve concentrated more on those positions. Though I do think Capers is a great value in the 7th. And, I don’t care what anyone else says, Donovan McNabb was the best player acquired with a 2nd round pick this year, and Jarmon is pretty damned good for a 3rd. They have to be factored in. Carriker too, as he is probably a better fit as a 3-4 DE than a 4-3 tackle.

This team was in total shambles when the new regime took over. It’s not going to get fixed overnight. I know there have been successes with other teams, but I don’t see a dynamic here that says playoffs yet. No way. I’ll be ecstatic if we’re 8-8. Of course, that would be par for the course as far as Snyder goes.

I’d rather us sign him than Faneca. He’s a true 3-4 LB, why not? While we have other guys, it would be a good idea to get such a good player who’s experienced in the scheme

too bad carter/jarmon are positionless now. why are we moving again…?

with our drafting startegy and no one has yet brought up our moves in free agency yet either.

We signed young vets that fit the schemes that are being implemented and dropped some overpriced older vets. The Hicks signing on the OL cannot be underestimated as it gives a proven “plug and play” person to use along the line. The OL philosophy is changing, with the new coaching staff, the OL will have to be more athletic, more fluid to handle the ZBS duties that are being implemented. Pretty sure that is why Cory L was signed to the team. Plus, we got tall athletic lineman in the draft, Williams, Hall and Capers all fit that category/type. Heyer might even rebound under the new staff, given how he was adequate under Gibbs and woeful under Zorn.

The pick used on Austin was to improve the return game, nothing more, nothing less. Say Buchanon turns out to be too important to the secondary, Austin was picked up to improve upon those woeful return numbers.

Riley fits as ILB depth, Fletcher can’t play forever and with Orakpo, MacIntosh, and Wilson as our holdovers appear to be OLB types with the exception of Blades.

Morris is most likely to be converted to HB/FB, to give Mr. Sellers some much needed competition to his sense of complacency.

the UDFA group has some possibilities, that RB out of LSU is intrigueing and the remainder of the emphasis being made on Safety, OL and DL. I’m not saying that we’re a complete team, but its a lot farther along than we usually are and we’re younger to boot.

Hmm I’m trying to figure this out. How is trading for a player in the league or with other team consider a draft. Now if you want to say we got a B+ for picking up good player then I would go for that. Now if you say what our grades would be for Drafting Talent then I would say it a C- if Silverback don’t become the next robert galley who we had high on the boards back in the day. You was right we won’t know for a couple of years if this draft works out or if this was a same repeat of the last 18 years.

It makes it pretty convient.

“Next guy, our third-round pick, obviously we didn’t have it in the draft, but Jeremy Jarmon — obviously, he’s comin’ off an ACL, but — we really feel that he could help us at the defensive end position next year

Mel Kiper has zero credibility with me left. He’s a fantastic personality for TV, but he praised the JaMarcus Russell pick and of course pegged the Redskins to select Clausen despite zero tackles to protect him.

2 Resons I Hate Mel Kiper

1. I hate any person (and I am sad to say it seems to be a uniquely American Trait) who end a lot of the sentences with the works “OK” in this really arrogant tone,

2. His Hair

Bonus 3rd reason I hate Mel Kiper.

He is wrong so often, Bill Simmons did a joke Mock where he deliberately said that he just chucked it together and was more accurate than Kiper, I hate that dude.

Landing a top-10 QB for a 2nd Round draft pick was enough to make me ecstatic. Following that up with Williams and Capers was just icing on the cake. I honestly don’t know enough about the other players to change my grade one way or the other. Time will tell. I hated the Campbell trade, but from what I’ve read it was more about appeasing JC and separating on relatively good terms.

It will probably be a better spot than a 4th next year and a pick is a pick.