Afterwards it's pretty easy to check, that 2011 DRAFT CLASS was VERY WEAK for defencemen. In general, the Wings picks were good as draft picks, those guys kind of overachieved the expectations vs, draft positions compared the other 2011 draftees. But because the class was so weak, nobody was enough to beat regulars from stronger draft classes out from NHL jobs.
Cholowski and Hronek are drafted from better draft classes, and their stories can be totally different. These things won't go hand in hand.
I was also hyping that 2011 class +5 years ago, but since then, because everything kind of failed, I started to learn these things (study the history, understand the weight of class) and now I understand the big picture a lot better.