Frankly, unless you are #1, I don't think where you draft is as big a deal as some think. Proper research and scouting is oh so much more important than where you draft in my mind. Winners can be found anywhere. You just have to do the right work and come to the right conclusions.
I still remember the Skins passing on WR Mike Williams out of USC for Carlos "Stone Hands" Rogers in 2005. Oh how the faithful howled about that. "How can you take a CB when we need a bonefide #1 WR and Williams, a can't miss guy, is still on the board?" was all I heard. Five years later it doesn't look like such a bad move does it?
While we are at, look at the 8 guys off the board ahead of Rogers that year... QB Alex Smith, RB Ronnie Brown, WR Braylon Edwards, RB Cedric Benson, RB Carnell Williams, CB Adam Jones, WR Troy Williamson, and CB Antrel Rolle... I ask you, do you want any of these guys now over Rogers? Maybe Rolle but even he is playing a different position than he did when drafted. Would you have drafted him that high as a Safety?
Granted, that is only one year, and obviously a weak draft, although you can make the case that a lot of teams screwed up and screwed up bad. The first honest-to-god superstar in this draft was Ware, drafted by Dallas at #11. The next did not come until #24 when Green Bay took Aaron Rodgers. Roddy White, Health Miller and Logan Mankins are the only other names in the first round that stick out at all so the pick of Carlos Rogers looks pretty good at this point. At #9.
