I think the anti-Brown camp are a little guilty of jumping to worse case scenarios as a way of pounding on best case scenarios.
Thornton was the consensus top pick of the 1997 draft. So you have a point in saying that's a reach for Brown, and I get that.
But Colborne was a midround pick of the 2008 draft, that has been traded once as a blue chip and again to avoid being lost on waivers.
He's less than Brown in draft pedigree, and discounted since given his progression (and this isn't to say Colborne is a bad player, just not a star).
Brown lies somewhere in between, and rightly so.
If Calgary scouts believe he's on an arch to push closer to the Thornton side of the ledger than Colborne then they have to take him.
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