Originally posted by Steve
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Also, being a fit with a particular team does not make a player more valuable overall. It just makes the player properly selectable by the team where there is a fit. Woods' value based on consensus ranking was #137 overall. He does not suddenly become more valuable because he fits what we do. He just becomes a player we should consider in his proper value range, which is nowhere close to 3/79.
Even worse, Woods had a measurables doppleganger in the draft in Tycen Anderson, who is the same height and speed, but weighs 14 pounds more (kind of like a more physical and better tackling version of Woods), has hands that are almost 2 inches bigger and arms that are 5/8 of an inch bigger. Staley emphasized Woods' height, speed and length in his discussion of him. Anderson was drafted at 5/166 by the Bengals. Multiple sources had these players rated closely and the consensus big board had these players rated within draft 22 slots of each other. In our own forum mock draft, Woods was taken at 5/149 and Anderson was taken at 5/167 (by me drafting for DAL).
And, of course, your discussion of Woods' scheme limitations goes a long way toward explaining why Woods likely would have been on the board for us at 4/123 if we wanted to go in that direction.
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