# NFL Draft 2022 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** football-nfl\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613 "2022-04-28T15:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/141 "2022-05-03T23:51:27Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > I would say mine is Cincinnati, but let’s be honest, at this point the Charlie Browns I root for are the Giants and Jets. I’ve got a good feeling about those teams, I expect them to go from dumpster fire to mediocre. Which sounds like faint praise, but it could be a stepping stone to actually being good. Though they need better QB play for that. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/142 "2022-05-04T00:03:47Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > The Pats, of course, deserve all the reviews of their draft calling it shitty. They sure do. The recent brain drain of departing coaches and staff seem to have hit them hard. I am not optimistic for them this season. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/143 "2022-05-04T04:51:31Z")
the raiders seem to have done pretty well to middlin’ according to the gurus … what worries me is the coach … will he try to make them the patriots 2.0? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/144 "2022-05-04T05:43:47Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > The recent brain drain of departing coaches and staff seem to have hit them hard. Not so sure about that. i can’t remember the last time the Pats had a draft that wasn’t largely criticized by the pundits or didn’t cause a borderline freakout from hometown fans. It became a meme how bad they were at picking WRs to help Brady. This draft looks more or less like every other Pats draft in recent memory with the exception of the Mac Jones pick. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/145 "2022-05-04T05:45:28Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Karlaftis and Chenal are outstanding values I watched a fair bit of B1G football this season. I really don’t think Karlaftis is going to produce at all in the pros. He’s just a guy. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/146 "2022-05-04T15:59:10Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Not so sure about that. i can’t remember the last time the Pats had a draft that wasn’t largely criticized by the pundits or didn’t cause a borderline freakout from hometown fans. I think you’re wrong here. Skipping last year’s very different draft, most of the time the reaction from pundits has been to praise Belichick’s flexibility moving around and trading picks to get good value, and the reaction from most hometown fans has been “I may be skeptical, but In Bill We Trust.” Looking back at [NFL.com](http://NFL.com), I see the following grades: 2020: C- (reinforces your argument) 2019: A 2018: A 2017: B+ I couldn’t go back any further than that at [NFL.com](http://NFL.com), but all of these drafts were pretty much terrible yet got good grades outside of 2020. And of course everyone loved 2021 with Mac Jones, as we’ve discussed. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/147 "2022-05-04T18:29:54Z")
You may be right about the grades. Hard to compete with the “Patriot Way” stuff. The Pats are notorious for trading back which tends to be a fairly safe way to get a good grade in the draft. I’m probably filtering it through the number of whiffs the Pats have had at WR and OL over the years in retrospect. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/148 "2022-05-04T18:41:09Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I’m probably filtering it through the number of whiffs the Pats have had at WR and OL over the years in retrospect. Oh yeah, in retrospect, most of their drafts from the past 5-7 years have been objectively _terrible_. They’ve missed on just about every position except maybe RB. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/149 "2022-05-04T18:58:36Z")
The point I was making is that the Pats brain trust, at least as it applies to the draft, has been pathetic for a while. I’m not sure any brain drain can be blamed for this year’s bad grade, this is maybe just the pundits starting to see through the fog to realize that this team has always sucked at this part of the process. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/150 "2022-05-04T22:13:08Z")
Fair point. This year seemed much more immediately worse to me, but you might be right. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/151 "2022-05-05T17:49:38Z")
Apparently RG3 is garnering some interest after running a 4.48 40 at a recent charity event. Not sure why. Dude could always run, even after the injury and surgery. What he could never do is read a defense, and that 40 time tells us nothing about that. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/152 "2022-05-05T17:51:37Z")
“My cousin can run really fast, here is his phone number. We will be eagerly awaiting the offers from NFL teams wanting to sign him as their franchise QB.” ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/153 "2022-05-05T19:08:32Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Apparently RG3 is garnering some interest after running a 4.48 40 at a recent charity event. According to RG3s agent… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2022, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/154 "2022-05-05T20:08:39Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > after running a 4.48 40 at a recent charity event. [Here’s](https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/rg3-got-calls-from-nfl-teams-after-40-yard-dash-with-rich-eisen/) a video of the event. He’s running by himself on a football field. It appears that it’s being timed by somebody using a stopwatch. So I might question the accuracy of the 4.48. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613/155 "2022-05-07T02:36:10Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Apparently RG3 is garnering some interest after running a 4.48 40 at a recent charity event. Not sure why. Dude could always run, even after the injury and surgery. What he could never do is read a defense, and that 40 time tells us nothing about that. I would disagree, He could read a defense well. But after the knee got blown up, he couldn’t get the release to get the ball where it was going for that read. Then when that went south he lost all confidence and got the yips on basic throws. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-draft-2022/963613.md?page=7)