NFL Draft Best drafts of all time - Page 2

I know it’s still early in this, but I was bored and looking back at draft classes.

Is there an argument that the 2017 draft is the best draft of all time?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_NFL_Draft

Look thru that list.
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Originally Posted by alanm:
Garret Bolles says hold my beer.

Plus, Denver took TE Jake Butt one pick before TE George Kittle.
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1983:

Elway
Dickerson
Jim Covert
Bruce Matthews
Jim Kelly
Marino
Darrell Green
Richard Dent

All hall of famers.

Add in really good players like Albert Lewis, Charles Mann, Dave Duerson, Mark Clayton, Leonard Marshall, Ken O'Brien, and Chris Hinton
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Originally Posted by rockymtnchief:
Plus, Denver took TE Jake Butt one pick before TE George Kittle.

Imagine if we would’ve taken Kittle instead of Jehu Chesson. We would be unstoppable with that 2 TE set.
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We coulda had Kittle kamara cam Sutton and Mahomes from one draft
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Originally Posted by O.city:
We coulda had Kittle kamara cam Sutton and Mahomes from one draft

I really wanted Kamara over Kpassagnon in the second
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Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry:
ChiefsPlanet in 1989 would have been all over Tony Mandarich's nut suck. Love them big fatties. Also Broderick Thomas being the Nebraska star would have been up there as well.

I was pissed that we took Derrick over Broderick, being a Husker fan.

I was cool with it shortly afterwards though.
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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19:
2011 had a crazy set of pass rushers. Von, JJ, Houston, Cam Jordan, Aldon Smith, Robert Quinn, Ryan Kerrigan.

Yeah, it's wild how the draft can vary. 2011 was great while 2009 was very weak.
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Originally Posted by O.city:
We coulda had Kittle kamara cam Sutton and Mahomes from one draft

Greatest draft in history.
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I really wanted Barry Sanders.

I definitely wanted Derrick over Broderick because I hated Nebraska & thought Derrick was a better Cornelius Bennett at Bama.
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Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
Imagine if we would’ve taken Kittle instead of Jehu Chesson. We would be unstoppable with that 2 TE set.

It would be like Gronk and Hernandez all over again...without the homicides.
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Forget that you have a few future hall of famers. The depth is absurd. Tons of players who are top 5 or 10 at their position. How many drafts can brag that:

Qb: Watson, mahomes
Rb: dalvin, cmc, kamara
Te: kittle
Ol: ramczyk
Cb: tredavious white, lattimore,
S: budda, humphries, adams
De/olb: Garrett, watt

Even guys like fournette and haason reddick came out of nowhere for strong 2020 seasons. I think about 3/4 of the top 20 amounted to something with over half being studs. One hell of a draft.
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If only we could see into the future, but still, I would take the 2017 draft just as it was.

At #10 Patrick Mahomes QB Texas Tech
At #59 Tanoh Kpassagnon DE Villanova - Could have had Ju Ju Smith-Schuster WR USC or Alvin Kamara RB Tennessee. Also consider there are other draft picks and those players are no longer in NFL.
At #85 Kareem Hunt RB Toledo - That's not the draft's fault
At #140 Jehu Chesson WR Michigan Could have had Marlon Mack RB South Florida, George Kittle TE Iowa

I am still happy with this draft.
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Best draft Guenness :-) :-)
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. 1983
Hall of Famers: 8 (John Elway, Eric Dickerson, Bruce Matthews, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, Darrell Green, Richard Dent, Jim Covert)

Pro Bowlers: 42
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different thing, but wasn't there one draft in which The Steelers basically drafted almost all of the core players in their dynasty run in the 70's?

*1974-Steelers drafted Stallworth, Lambert, Swann, and Mike Webster.

That's a hell of a draft. 4 gold jackets.
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