deadhead
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Again, none of them are good. Of course you would rather have Hurts than any of them as assets. But would you rather have Fulton (or your favorite option) + Bortles or Hurts + your favorite vet CB/S/LB/WR FA for one year? That's the question.
If you want a Minshew approach, you go for an Anthony Gordon. If you want to make a long-term upside play you take a Hurts and I'm fine with it. But don't tell me Hurts is a backup upgrade immediately when the guy couldn't anticipate windows in the Big 12. That's lunacy.
Due to the virus, Hurts will probably be a wash his rookie season, but the same for Fulton et al.
That is, it's unlikely that a draft pick outside the first round will be an immediate contributor if they can't get extended training camps up and running before the season (because they'll miss all the mini-camps). And even the 1st round guys may be less impactful than the norm. Just too much to absorb too fast, you can study film and the playbook, but without the walk throughs et al in the spring, it's not going to sink in as well, and come the fall, everything will be accelerated.
So in many ways you're drafting this year for 2021-22, where you'll almost have two draft classes to integrate in one season.
This isn't ice hockey where there's only a limited amount to absorb, football is probably the mentally most intense sport in the world, NFL schemes are so sophisticated that even high IQ players take time to figure it out.