Why Melvin Gordon Should Be NFL’s Favorite for Rookie of the Year

May 9, 2015   ·   Cian Fahey   ·   Jump to comments

Best Player Available.
It's a simple idea, but a very misleading term. "Best Player Available" is an ideal that is given great prominence during draft season. It is used to oversimplify the draft process and describe a strategy where teams simply select the best player available every time they are on the clock.
Of course, while that sounds brilliant, it is actually a very flawed, misleading thought process that is justified with the manipulation offered by hindsight.
Hindsight allows us to label successful draft picks as picks made with the Best Players Available strategy. It also allows us to use later successful picks to condemn failed draft picks as need selections because we can point to that player not being the best available at the time.
Never do we look back and say, "He was the best player available," when a top-ranked/graded player fails in the NFL.
Instead, we label it a reach or a need pick without even knowing the thought process that the tea...

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