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Originally Posted by feel wrath
Iirc basically everybody wanted Jamarcus. After his pro day he was seen as basically a no brainer #1
Plenty of hindsight heroes later on but my memory is that all the GMs were coo-ing about his arm strength, size etc
Of course the fact that he put on 20lbs between the end of the season and the combine should have been a red flag around his desire but he was a lock for #1 I think?
I think Calvin was the top guy. Joe Thomas, Adrian Peterson, Laron Landry also were blue chippers. I was in like 8th grade my team was picking 7th and had Tarvaris Jackson at QB and Jamarcus didnt make my top 7 big board. It wasn't shocking that he went #1 but I don't think it was a no brainer at all. IIRC Jamarcus didn't really overtake Brady Quinn as the top QB until the bowl game.
Dwayne Jarrett was the big faller after he ran a pitiful 40. I was shocked when Vikes passed on him in RD 2 (Sidney Rice ended up much better).
I wanted to trade down for Patrick Willis, sort by 40 time, ez game.
Other random notes: Cardinals at #5 passed on Adrian because Levi Brown was seen as elite RT prospect and they had a Lefty QB in Leinart. Also they had signed Edgerrin James to a big $$$ FA contract the year before (tho he had run for just 3.4 ypc and never would break 4.0 again). Texans took Amobi Okoye who was like 19 years old.
Last edited by BillNye; 09-07-2017 at 12:49 AM.