I'm not sure. How many of them were offensive lineman switched to a completely different position than they played regularly in college? And how many of those linemen had to shift positions multiple times during their second season? And how many of those linemen had every other lineman on their squad miss significant time to injury? How well did they flourish?

As for a successful draft, I have commonly heard that getting two or three starters is considered a successful draft. Regardless of how you feel about Ruiz and Trautman they are both starters.

Once again, I'm not saying that Ruiz will definitely be a success, but in all honesty one would have to admit that the circumstances (which appear to be unique to his situation) have made it impossible to fairly judge his potential to date. Now if he stinks it up this season I'll take the seat right beside you on the bandwagon.

Excuses. That's all I hear.

Three quality starters would be a decent draft unless you gave away oh, I don't know, SIX DRAFT PICKS for THREE guys we're still not sure will be here next season...

Patience, my friend, is a virtue. What's going to happen will happen. We'll see the eventual outcome when it gets here. I'd rather not stress over it now. Hell, I'll not even stress over it regardless. Life is too short.

You go be virtuous Grasshopper. I'm sure the millions of dollars and draft capital invested don't change anything in the franchise's view either....

Likely not. Fans (and talking heads) are far more concerned with spent picks than any GM. Some work out some don't. It's all part of the business. C'est la vie.

The GMs that don’t worry about how draft picks work out aren’t employed for
long.

Or they have tenure with their franchises and the franchise owner enjoys not having to be burden with day to day franchise operations...