Why I WORRY about Jones.

[RashanGary]

Every time I hear the word "reach" written by web sites and draftniks it always seems to be used in the context that team A needed position A and there-for took Player A when Palyer B is clearly better.

I think teams reach all the time but we wouldn't know it unless it was in hindsight and even then we might not know for certain. I think Carroll was a reach on need. I think sherman eliminated large parts of his draft board *basically anything except CB* and then took the best CB on his board. In hindsite it would look like that is a big possiblity but I certainly don't know even though all eveidence points to it.

So to say that there is no such thing as reaching would be to assume no GM has ever put need before merit. If you are saying "none of us would ever know", then I agree but to say it doesn't exist is hard for me to buy, at least if we're defining "reach" the same way.

[ZachMN]

And where did Jerry Rice play college football? I would rather a team gets a guy who is still rising as opposed to having peaked and possibly plateaued. A lot of guys who are awesome in college don't necessarily maintain that in the pros for whatever reason. The real test will be if he makes the team and if so how he does against "real" opponenets. I liked what I saw out of Jennings last year and he played against allegedly inferior opponents.

[Rastak]

Every time I hear the word "reach" written by web sites and draftniks it always seems to be used in the context that team A needed position A and there-for took Player A when Palyer B is clearly better.

Actually I think it is usually the case of Player A could have been had "X" number of rounds later but need caused team "X" to draft the guy right there due to need or the fact they may have graded that player higher.

The second reason is the thing we as fans and draftniks don't understand as well.

[RashanGary]

Every time I hear the word "reach" written by web sites and draftniks it always seems to be used in the context that team A needed position A and there-for took Player A when Palyer B is clearly better.

Actually I think it is usually the case of Player A could have been had "X" number of rounds later but need caused team "X" to draft the guy right there due to need or the fact they may have graded that player higher.

The second reason is the thing we as fans and draftniks don't understand as well.

That's pretty much what I said I agree.