This is an overall lesson about the Draft. Don't put all your eggs into one basket. It's fairly easy for something to go wrong with a single player. Despite his talents the aforementioned injuries and political machinations turned the dream start to the Washington career into one of the most terrifying experiences. Any player is too uncertain to be certain. You'd be better in diversifying your investments because it's much harder for something to go wrong for an entire team of players. The best way to make useful players out of the draft is not to get the top pick, but to have the most picks, and the most chances to select players that won't go under.
However, at the very least, when Washington made a trade for the no. 2 pick, they were getting a quarterback prospect everybody believed would succeed.
Nobody in this year's class fits that description. The Rams declare that they want the position of a quarterback, however, pretty all of us agree that a quarterback's not the best player of this year's draft, or even in the top 3. Even if selecting a player, no one can really stand out from the rest: Draft experts tend to be pretty evenly divided on which quarterback is the most effective in the draft this season is Wentz and Jared Goff.
There was some debate about Griffin as well as Andrew Luck in 2012. and there was debate about Jameis Winston, or Marcus Mariota last year, however, this one is of a different nature. There were a lot of highly-regarded prospects battling to be considered the top. This is a crop of promising prospects, but nobody is sure which one will succeed.
The week before, Bill Barnwell of ESPN discussed how in the lottery-like draft "the smartest strategy is simply to purchase greater numbers of tickets." The RG3 trade was possibly the best example of that ever, and the losers of the deal appear to be unwilling to learn that lesson. Perhaps it will work but the Rams should know better.
The Chargers could trade Philip Rivers, but they'd likely make a mistake too.
LaDainian Tomlinson thinks the Chargers should sell Philip Rivers. The Chargers are in rebuilding mode and they should sell Philip Rivers instead of ruin his entire career. Are they realistic?
It makes some sense at first glance. The Chargers are, as usual an absolute disaster losing three games , in painful fashion by blowing fourth-quarter leads. Rivers isn't a part of the issue. He's getting 68.8% of his passes, 7.8 yards per effort, has 1.110 yards, seven touchdowns and just one interception.
