TheOak

That is exactly what draft "BPA for that position implies".

FinSaint

So?!

I never said that they should draft BPA for a specific need position, but that they should draft a BPA in a need position... see the difference there?

The key is to draft BPA with a focus on the need positions the team has left after the free agency, but not to be 100% tied down to that philosophy as per the example I gave earlier.

What a team does prior to the draft in free agency can't be separated from what their strategy will be for the draft. I think that no team would bypass all potential starting safeties in the free agency if they saw that there were no viable alternatives to be had to that position in the draft - and therefore, it would be ludicrous to think that they'd go to the draft with the sole intention of just spending their highest pick to get the best available player to that spot. They might use that pick to draft a player, who they know a team with a surplus of starter caliber safeties wants, and try to make a trade after the draft. But again, that probably isn't the strategy most if any team would go with prior to trying to fill that position in the free agency.

This doesn't affect the overall philosophy of having a priority in drafting BPA in a need position, because you can't be totally set in the way you want to carry out the draft, especially now under the new CBA which has caused there to be so many more opportunities to make trades during the draft.

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