Ravens GM Eric DeCosta reveals the ‘only rational approach’ to the NFL draft


Ravens GM Eric DeCosta reveals the ‘only rational approach’ to the NFL draft

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The Baltimore Corvi are often damaged for their own draft picks, even while stretching to avoid the trades. The General Manager Eric Decosta Insistence is not an accidentally, revealing in Recent interview to believe “only a rational approach” to NFL Draft It is to be accumulated as many reads to be due to an unpredictable hit rate of player.

“No teams simply don’t do anything better than anyone else,” decost said. “And all things are about the same thing. … [Some believe the] Draft is in each kind of luck with the ability to process. I don’t [fully] To believe. However, there is no element of luck involved. So, if you get a premise, then you’re gonna be a player that you think is better than other people. Most of the time [the other teams are] It is not a lot of draft of the player. The player is likely to gonna. [And] There is no guarantee that the player is important to be better. … all that is equal, that no one knows … only a rational approach to get more to-bats, is to pick more. “

Decosta’s rationale stems from the main NFL teams There are more targeting similar players and explained, perhaps the part of the intended media coverage of clubs, most prioritized positions and prospect categories.

“What we have seen in the last five years, everyone seems to be mounted … the same players,” he said. “That’s the kind of what is the draft become. … [So] My idea of ​​having more read means i have a chance getting better [value]. “

Decosta’s latest ansea draft-day tried? Land Georgia Safety Malaki Starks in the first year’s draft, despite sitting tight than trading of Baltimore’s No. 27 lorem.