Pretty impressive, Rick Spielman

[StickyBun]

Holton Hill and Brandon Zylstra. UDFAs. Make the final roster on a Superbowl talented roster. Its pretty amazing when you think about it. 

[Guest]

Hill was about a willingness to take a risk on a Day 2, early Day 3 talent...that took extreme diligence to make that happen...

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@StickyBun said:
Holton Hill and Brandon Zylstra. UDFAs. Make the final roster on a Superbowl talented roster. Its pretty amazing when you think about it. 

Very impressive but don't forget from this year - R. Thomas, Boone, D. Downs

plus

Bower, Collins and Wilson from last year

plus

CJ Ham, A. Harris and Theilan from a few years back

Oh and UDFA's we got from other teams...guys like

R. Hill, M. Remmers, B. Jones, K. Sloter, new punter Wile and also the snapper K. McDermott

So I count 17 UDFA's on our team.  Might have missed one or two.  

(I'm going to make thread about this)

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Good point. I would have rather kept Odenigbo over Ant Harris. So I think that would reduce our number of UDFAs. And you can’t count Downs. He was drafted. But none of this undermines your point.

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remmers got paid bank to come here. im not sure slick rick gets credit for that. but i does say something that right at 1/3 of our roster is udfa

with all the speculation, posturing etc theres 275ish (forgot how many comp picks there are)  draft picks every year that you can still make it as a udfa

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So does any of this speak negatively to our ability to hit on actual draft picks that they are beat out bY undrafted free agents?

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@JimmyinSD said:
So does any of this speak negatively to our ability to hit on actual draft picks that they are beat out bY undrafted free agents?

7 picks a year. very short shelf life of players. say average 3-4 years for drafted folks?  28/53 players drafted at any given time?