Quote: @StickyBun said:
The Mattison pick was almost universally panned in post-Draft stories. How you like dem apples?
100 carries, 462 yards and a TD. The Vikings have to be ecstatic over this kind of production in a limited rookie role.
And rightfully so at the time. The near-universal consensus was that he would be available well into the 4th Round.
Minnesota traded down in the 3rd a bunch of times to pick a guy that would have been available the next day anyway.
When analyzing the Draft right after it's over the ONLY thing you can do is look at consensus rankings and projections versus where the player was taken.
Really, post-Draft grades are a complete crapshoot because nobody knows how that 7th Round chubby QB from Michigan will pan out. What, he went on to win 6 Superbowls?
But we want some validation as fans that our team did a good job and we want it the second the Draft ends. So you get grades that are only able to operate based on projections.
That's why I enjoy the Re-Drafts so much. Diggs goes from 5th to 1st Round. Hunter from 3rd to maybe overall #1 pick. Mattison is proving he should have gone in the 2nd already.
But it's not fair to use hindsight to criticize a fundamentally flawed grading system IMO.