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Originally Posted by Oldcolt
Depends on your perspective I guess. Willis has been out of football since 2022, Hooker was a huge miss at 15 (he is a starting safety however) Blackmon starts and Cross wasn't good enough for us to resign (we have the money). 'Hitting' on 7th rounders means you have a dude who makes the team, not someone that is foundational on your team. They may have had Jones/Thomas start but from how they continue to try to replace them it doesn't appear they start because they are really good, they are all we have. The proof that we draft DBs like shit is that 3 of our 4 starters were not drafted by us. We are not filling out the defensive backfield with free agents, they are the only way we seem to get DBs we hold onto (that and giving up multiple first round picks). Not sure who you blame for an atmosphere that allows Rogers to do what he did, but it is a blight on the team that we had a dude betting on games. For a man who preaches building through the draft I just do not see it in this defensive backfield. Maybe it would have been more accurate to say Ballard hasn't drafted one difference maker in the defensive backfield since he got here.
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Replacing a decent starter with an All-Pro is something I would do 10 times out of 10, especially if all it costs is money like Ward. The Sauce trade was likely a bit of an overpay, but the player is elite. Sitting behind Sauce and Ward as a boundary CB isn't an indictment of Jaylon Jones's abilities, it's evidence of the team investing heavily in the position.