I know a lot of us didn’t know who Kacmarek is before the draft as “consensus” had him closer to rd 5-6. I also know rd3 was at like 10PM on a Friday night, NBA playoffs were on, a lot of you didn’t watch the draft and just checked twitter to see the Dolphins took a TE you’d never heard of
There’s been lots of discussion of whether he’s good or not, if the pick was high or low, but looking at big picture we have to see what was happening in the draft around us at the time
Eli Stowers 56
Marlin Klein 59
Max Klare 61
Sam Roush 69
Oscar Delp 73
Then at 87 we take the best blocking TE in the class in Will Kacmarek. Our GM got his guy at the tail end of a run. Eli Raridon went 95 and not another TE was drafted until 133. The NFL clearly had a tier gap and our GM smartly went “off consensus” to get his guy before the well was dry
It’s no different psychology then when you’re in a fantasy draft and all the mocks have Justin Herbert rd 10, but your idiot friends start taking QBs rd2. Do you wait on consensus and get left starting Bryce Young or do you catch the run happening early and get your guy while he’s there
Clearly the team’s prerogative is to make things easier for Devon Achane. If that means getting a B- in a content creators Draft Roundup that’s a price I’m willing to pay