@poeticg said:

HB- What you should try to do is to use a lot of those lower round picks that you've acquired and trade up for more 'top tier' players.

I had one draft where I was able to land Clowney, Watkins, Evans, Carr and Xavier Su'a-Filo. That constitutes an exceptional draft. You want to use the available resources to devise the best draft, ie. moves that make the team better with starters, blue-chippers and future Pro-Bowlers/HOFERS.

It's just my opinion but out of that long list of prospect the only ones intriguing to me are Watkins(taken 1st), the safety in the third round and Dri Archer in the sixth. I would rather you traded a boatload of picks and landed a stud RT/OG or one of the TOP CB. Cleveland needs Blue-Chippers and in large supply. One guy at 4 will not cut it. Even if you have to use future resources from the next years draft or the year after, look what Washington gave to land RG3 because they believed he made them better now and they would be better later for it. I'm not saying that what they did was the right choice only, it's a different means to an end.

Everything you said is the exact reason why I don't think this game is worth playing more than once.

I had one draft where I was able to land Clowney, Watkins, Evans, Carr and Xavier Su'a-Filo. That constitutes an exceptional draft. You want to use the available resources to devise the best draft, ie. moves that make the team better with starters, blue-chippers and future Pro-Bowlers/HOFERS.

It's just my opinion but out of that long list of prospect the only ones intriguing to me are Watkins(taken 1st), the safety in the third round and Dri Archer in the sixth. I would rather you traded a boatload of picks and landed a stud RT/OG or one of the TOP CB. Cleveland needs Blue-Chippers and in large supply. One guy at 4 will not cut it. Even if you have to use future resources from the next years draft or the year after, look what Washington gave to land RG3 because they believed he made them better now and they would be better later for it. I'm not saying that what they did was the right choice only, it's a different means to an end.

Round 1 Pick 4: Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson (A)
Round 1 Pick 26: Stephon Tuitt, DE, Notre Dame (C+)
Round 2 Pick 3: Bradley Roby, CB, Ohio State (B+)
Round 3 Pick 7: Deone Bucannon, SS, Washington State (A)
Round 3 Pick 19: Demarcus Lawrence, DE, Boise State
Round 4 Pick 6: Bruce Ellington, WR, South Carolina (B-)
Round 4 Pick 27: Aaron Murray, QB, Georgia (A-)
Round 5 Pick 5: Terrance West, RB, Towson (A)
Round 6 Pick 4: Dri Archer, WR, Kent State (C-)
Round 7 Pick 3: Aaron Colvin, CB, Oklahoma (D+)

vs what I did in a round where I traded.

Round 1 Pick 4: Sammy Watkins, WR, Clemson (A)
Round 1 Pick 32 (SEA): Teddy Twatwater, QB, Louisville (A)
Round 2 Pick 9 (BUF): Ra'Shede Hageman, DT, Minnesota (A-)
Round 2 Pick 28 (CAR): Pierre Desir, CB, Lindenwood (B+)
Round 2 Pick 32 (SEA): Jeremiah Attaochu, OLB, Georgia Tech (A-)
Round 3 Pick 11 (STL): Deone Bucannon, SS, Washington State (A)
Round 3 Pick 19: Charles Sims, RB, West Virginia (A-)
Round 4 Pick 5 (JAX): Bruce Ellington, WR, South Carolina (C+)
Round 4 Pick 6: C.J. Fiedorowicz, TE, Iowa (B+)
Round 4 Pick 9 (BUF): Christian Jones, ILB, Florida State (
Round 4 Pick 17 (CHI): Caraun Reid, DT, Princeton (D+)
Round 4 Pick 27: Aaron Murray, QB, Georgia (C-)
Round 5 Pick 4 (JAX): Brandon Coleman, WR, Rutgers
Round 5 Pick 5: Brandon Thomas, OG, Clemson (D-)
Round 6 Pick 4: Dri Archer, WR, Kent State (C-)
Round 6 Pick 15 (CHI): A.C. Leonard, TE, Tennessee State (D)
Round 6 Pick 19 (NYJ): Michael Sam, DE, Missouri (A)
Round 7 Pick 11 (STL): Aaron Colvin, CB, Oklahoma (C-)
Round 7 Pick 12 (DET): Tom Hornsey, P, Memphis (A)
Round 7 Pick 17 (IND): Keith Wenning, QB, Ball State (E)

Oh ya, 20 picks. That's realistic. Just like how teams I traded my pick to would immediately trade the pick to another team. This isn't the Draft Day Movie.

I think this would be more fun if you could get people to sign up and assigned to teams and run through the draft as a group.

Round 1 Pick 9 (BUF): Jake Matthews, OT, Texas A&M (A)

Round 1 Pick 26: Kyle Fuller, CB, Virginia Tech (

Round 1 Pick 28 (CAR): Derek Carr, QB, Fresno State (A-)

Round 2 Pick 4 (OAK): Allen Robinson, WR, Penn State (B+)

Round 2 Pick 6 (T.B.): Cyrus Kouandjio, OT, Alabama (C-)

Round 2 Pick 9 (BUF): Carlos Hyde, RB, Ohio State (

Round 3 Pick 3 (OAK): Stanley Jean-Baptiste, CB, Nebraska (C-)

Round 3 Pick 5 (T.B.): Deone Bucannon, SS, Washington State (A)

Round 4 Pick 6: Jay Prosch, FB, Auburn (

Round 4 Pick 27: Jared Abbrederis, WR, Wisconsin (A-)

Round 5 Pick 5: Dri Archer, WR, Kent State (E)

Round 6 Pick 4: Chris Boswell, K, Rice (A)

Round 7 Pick 3: Colt Lyerla, TE, Oregon (

I only got a C+ for Hazel but he is a small school sleeper ....

Round 1 Pick 8 (MINN): Johnny Manziel, QB, Texas A&M (A)
Round 1 Pick 26: Brandin Cooks, WR, Oregon State (A)
Round 2 Pick 3: Xavier Su'a-Filo, OG, UCLA (A)
Round 2 Pick 9 (BUF): Lamarcus Joyner, CB, Florida State (
Round 3 Pick 7: Chris Borland, ILB, Wisconsin (A-)
Round 3 Pick 19: Jeremy Hill, RB, LSU (A)
Round 4 Pick 6: Louchiez Purifoy, CB, Florida (
Round 4 Pick 27: Craig Loston, SS, LSU (A)
Round 5 Pick 5: Prince Shembo, OLB, Notre Dame (A-)
Round 6 Pick 4: Kirby Van Der Kamp, P, Iowa State (A)
Round 7 Pick 3: Matt Hazel, WR, Coastal Carolina (C+)
Round 7 Pick 9 (BUF): Calvin Barnett, DT, Oklahoma State (B-)