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Originally Posted by The Original FFIV
What's different about Ebert is that he was a projected first rounder that almost fell out of the draft. I get that we've selected guys that slipped from projected 3&4 rounds in the later rounds but to get a guy in the 7th round when he was looking like a top ten months earlier in a position of need would have been an interesting gamble. If you had Ebert and Roy in your prospect pool one of them turns out that's one less defenceman you have to acquire.
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Every player a team drafts they do so hoping they will become a player. I would hope teams make decisions on their evaluations not by prior draft status