Jaxon Smith-Njigba - WR - Ohio St.
Broderick Jones - OT - Georgia
Zay Flowers - WR - Boston College
Nolan Smith - EDGE - Georgia
Joey Porter - CB - Penn St.
Darnell Wright - OT - Tennessee
Calijah Kancey - DL - Pittsburgh
Myles Murphy - EDGE - Clemson
Jordan Addison - WR- USC
Bijan Robinson - RB - Texas
Deonte Banks - CB - Maryland
Quentin Johnson - WR - TCU
Brian Branch - S - Alabama
John Michael Schmitz - IOL - Minnesota
Dalton Kincaid - TE - Utah
Michael Mayer - TE - Notre Dame
Darnell Washington - TE - Georgia
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My experience with people who've been diagnosed (my father-in-law, my brother) is that after the "official" diagnosis, people begin to go back and re-think what came before, and most of the time come to the conclusion that the dementia was probably developing long, long before the actual diagnosis was made.
I think this may have been what happened with Thompson, and I don't know if you can tie that to draft picks, but he certainly lost his luster as a draftnik at this point. Still had some good picks after that, but not nearly so many. I blame Murphy for letting Thompson stay too long. Not only was it a disservice to the team, I think it was a disservice to Thompson, who by the accounts I've read really just liked the scouting part best and probably would've been fine having the GM duties taken and assigned to scout once again.
I have to say I'm not a huge Mark Murphy fan. Obviously the team has had success, and it's a damn money machine, but as far as some of his organizational decisions, I'm not a huge fan.
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
KYPack