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Picking talent or character

Mike Detillier
NFL Analyst
Published: Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 11:00 p.m.

Last Modified: Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 12:01 a.m.


The NFL draft is no more than an educated guess on a player.

That was a line used often by former San Francisco 49ers and Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Bill Walsh, and it is 100 percent accurate.
Everyone has a plan when it comes to draft day, but never does it work out just right.

It is the part of the draft that is intriguing. With 32 teams, there are 32 different opinions on who are the best players and which player "fits" what that team wants on their squad.

For all the talk and game planning, that moment of surprise always happens. While teams won't admit it, those events happen and you have to be ready to make a choice on a player that you didn't think would be there for various reasons and also to have a lengthy bullpen of players ready for when you select in the early rounds.

Those moments are starting to emerge early on in the process with less than a month to the 2015 NFL draft.

Just a month ago, no one thought that Nebraska defensive end/outside linebacker Randy Gregory would be available for the New Orleans Saints at the 13th overall pick.

That is in play today.


There were rumblings of problems with Gregory at Nebraska, but on the field, he wreaked havoc in the Big Ten in two seasons with 29 tackles for losses and 17 ½ sacks.


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