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10:52 am, April 26, 2017
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Who are the best and worst first-rounders in Redskins draft history? Here’s a look at the top and bottom five.
Day 1 of the NFL Draft is generally a symbol of hope for a team’s future. The best of the available young college talent is up for grabs and each team with a pick has a crack at it. On Thursday, the Washington Redskins (barring a trade) will presumably use the 17th overall pick to add a blue chip defensive player to help improve a defense that ranked just 28th last season.
In theory.
The ‘Skins might instead take a running back. Or a wide receiver. Or they’ll figuratively set this city’s sports talk stations ablaze by taking a quarterback to replace the good-but-not-good-enough Kirk Cousins.
Such choices factor into this list.
For example, Rod Gardner (pictured above) was by all accounts a bust as the 15th overall pick in 2001. He lasted just four years in Washington after failing to produce more than Santana Moss, Chad Johnson, Steve Smith and Reggie Wayne — all great receivers selected after him.
But Gardner didn’t quite make the cut as one of the five worst first-rounders in Redskins history, because he topped 1,000 receiving yards in 2002 and was moderately productive in Burgundy and Gold. This list is for first-rounders who had little-to-no production and were thus wasted picks.
Here are those five picks, presented in no particular order. Once we wade through this muck, I’ll let you know the criteria for the five best first-round picks.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/2017 10:58AM by Fox News.