Time To Grade The AZ Cardinals 2007 Draft
by DaCards on May 6, 2011 2:14 PM MDT
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They say that you can not grade a draft untill 2 to 3 years down the road. Well its time.
The 2007 draft is the first of Coach Whiz's with the Arizona Cardinals, and in my opinion his worst. We had a whopping five picks in that draft, and we really only got use out of one of them and mediocrity from one other. So what I'm going to do first is give you our picks in what rounds they went. Then I will give a brief description of what they have done so far and then my grade. The grade is based on value of the pick over production. Ya dig?
1st round 5th pick (5): Levi Brown T Penn State
2nd round 1st pick (33): Alan Branch NT Michagan
3rd round 5th pick (69): Buster Davis ILB Florida State
5th round 5th pick (142): Steve (Boobs) Breaston WR Mischagan
7th round 5th pick (215) Ben Patrick TE Delaware
So there where are selections we only had 5 because we traded up in the second round 4 spots and gave our 4th and 6th round pics plus swapped the 2nd pick.
Levi Brown at the time was not considered a reach as he was considered a top ten talent at the time and we just lost Lenard Davis to the Cowboys. He has been a serviceable RT and LT even being a Pro Bowl alternate in 09. He has played in 61 games sarting 59 of those . GRADE C
Alan Branch started the year out on Mel Kiper JR top 25 but the fell out ads the storys came in about his lack of effort to be great. a 1st rnd grade with issues dropped to the second round. For the most part the critics where right he has under achived untill recent where he has been a serviceable nt and de but due where he was drafted he gets a lower grade. GRADE D-
Buster Davis was considered to be a Zach themas a good instincts hard hitting undersized ILB what he did was get cut in the off season of his rookie year not much to say. GRADE F-
Steve Breaston considered to be a special teams guy and thats about it. so what has he done since becoming a cardinal he has appered in 47 games staring 22 of them he has140 receptions for 1810 yards including one 1000 yard season. GRADE A-.
Ben Patrick was our seventh rnd selection he was cut then signed to the practice squad eventually staring in 7 games that year and has not done to much but he did have the TD in the Super Bowl. and because he was a seventh rnd pick and has started i give him a GRADE OF C+.
My overall grade for the 2007 draft class is a D.
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Notable 1st rnd players we passed on
Patrick Willis, Darrel Revis, Adrian Peterson, Jon Beason,
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notable 2ND round players we passed on
Kevin Kolb, Paul Posluszny, Zach Miller,LaMarr Woodley, David Harris,
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I put it there
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I have total page control
and will front page FanPosts if they are (1) worth the attention and (2) if there is room to add it to the content already there.
I would have front paged a couple during the draft, but with the quantity of posts we were getting up because of the draft, I didn’t.
I also did some minor edits for style and mechanics since it is now on the front page.
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DaCards has been doing this forever
I have been reading your stuff for 2 or 3 years now (not sure) and all of DaCards posts have been top notch and knowledgeable every single time I have read them. Now I just started posting because well. I just figured it out….
Actually
Davis was seen by many as a reach at number five. He was top talent, but many though the Cards reached for him.
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Yea you could have the argument but you could of said the same about peterson
i mean look how far players have dropped due to heath concerns
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And some silly person
gives it an A without explaining. Classic!
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I put an A accidently...
I was like “oh another draft grade, A!” Then I realized it wasn’t for this year, but 07….
Ha!
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i could of cared less for peterson
look at some of the linebackers we passed on it mortifying
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exactly
none of those LB’s were even close to top 5 picks at the time
by Steamin' Beamin' on May 10, 2011 6:56 AM MDT up reply actions
I think it's a B-/C+ draft
Two starters, two contributors and only one bust. While Levi isn’t great, he is serviceable and does well in the run game.
Alan Branch has also played better of late since his move to DE.
The only reason I won’t give the draft a solid B is because we drafted for need and as DaCards pointed out, we missed out on some serious talent. Hopefully in four years we won’t be saying “I can’t believe we passed up on that guy!”
Actually with your post
I was planning on doing that tonight…unless someone gets it done first, in which case mine might be a response
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Gave it a C.
We still have four of the five picks on the roster and two of them (Breaston and Brown) are starting. That to me warrants a C grade even though we could have had an AP or a LaMarr Woodley.
I gave it a D
Boobs is the only player that has talent beyond where he was picked. Otherwise, everyone else has an extreme lack of talent from where they were chosen.
The only reason this isnt an F....
Is because steve breston was in this draft. This was a complete disaster of a draft. The third round pick didnt even make it out of training camp. How in the hell do you draft someone that screwed up. Alan branch we had to replace with dan williams, last year. Ben Patrick we had to replace this year… Levi is not that great and shouldnt be paid as a fifth pick on the rookie wage scale proposed let alone what we actually paid him. Though with regard to this D grade, Wiz learned his lesson about putting an infasis on need… which has lead to 4 great drafts.
your last statement in your comment is kind of true
The following year our biggest needs where CB RB and DE and WR and we took DRC 1st who no one seen coming CC was second Early Doucet 3rd which as u can see was considered both need and bpa
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by DaCards on May 6, 2011 5:51 PM MDT via mobile up reply actions
i think
brown- C-
branch- C-
buster- F
breason A+
Patrick- B
Overall i’d give it a C. at least 4 of these guys are still here.
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