It's always premature to declare winners and losers on draft weekend as there are a lot of instances of highly graded drafts not playing out well and poorly graded drafts playing out better than expected by the draft pundits. That said I can't defend the Raiders 1st round. I knew Ruggs was always going to be a possibility due to Gruden's envy of the Chiefs speed on offense but Arnette at 19 IMO is the worst pick of the first round based on the information we currently have. I have no doubt he would be available in the 2nd round or even 3rd round and it's just poor value not to trade back if the guy you want is not a projected 1st round pick. NFL didn't even have video on him because they took the 58 guys they expected may go in the first round and probably could have gone back to 80 and still wouldn't have contacted Arnette. When you look at perennial bad organizations there's always trends or indicators of why they continue to fail and the Raiders really do need to sort out their issue of getting poor value with their 1st round picks.
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