~2018 NFL Thread~

[ELA]

With Darrelle Revis retiring today I saw the question posed of who was the best player from the 2007 Draft, now that all 4 are retired.

Revis, Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas or Adrian Peterson?

Not a bad top 4.  Hell, without doing the research you'd be hard pressed to find a better top 4 in any draft.  All in all that was a hell of a draft.  Beyond them you have Patrick Willis, Marshawn Lynch, Lawrence Timmons, Michael Griffin, Reggie Nelson, Brandon MEriweather, Joe Staley, Greg Olsen, Paul Posluszny, Eric Weddle, Zach Miller, LaMarr Woodley, Marshal Yanda.  Bunch of All Pros, and some future HOF there.

And there weren't diamonds in the rough, thoese were guys living up to expectations.  Every name mentioned was in the top 86 picks (early 3rd round), and all but Yanda were in the first 46.

Only negative you can say is it was a historically bad QB draft, with Jamarcus Russell #1, Brady Quinn later in the 1st, Kevin Kolb, John Beck, Drew Stanton in the 2nd, Trent Edwards in the 3rd, Isaiah Stanback, Jeff Rowe, Troy Smith, Jordan Palmer and Tyler Thigpen to round it out.  None ever reach a Pro Bowl, or really became a full time starter.

[847badgerfan]

I think I will continue by boycott of the NFL until the whole National Anthem thing is resolved.

Any guy that skips the NFL draft follies to go fishing is tops in my book.

[FearlessF]

ya butt, Joe Thomas is involved!

[Riffraft]

I am a bit bias, but I would place Joe Thomas first among those 4. Never a down year, always in the top rankings of his position. Always out there when called to duty. Never missed a snap, let alone a game unless the injury that on his final play of his career.

 

[847badgerfan]

Joe always brought his lunch bucket and his fishing pole.

[rook119]

With Darrelle Revis retiring today I saw the question posed of who was the best player from the 2007 Draft, now that all 4 are retired.

Revis, Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas or Adrian Peterson?

Not a bad top 4.  Hell, without doing the research you'd be hard pressed to find a better top 4 in any draft.  All in all that was a hell of a draft.  Beyond them you have Patrick Willis, Marshawn Lynch, Lawrence Timmons, Michael Griffin, Reggie Nelson, Brandon MEriweather, Joe Staley, Greg Olsen, Paul Posluszny, Eric Weddle, Zach Miller, LaMarr Woodley, Marshal Yanda.  Bunch of All Pros, and some future HOF there.

And there weren't diamonds in the rough, thoese were guys living up to expectations.  Every name mentioned was in the top 86 picks (early 3rd round), and all but Yanda were in the first 46.

Only negative you can say is it was a historically bad QB draft, with Jamarcus Russell #1, Brady Quinn later in the 1st, Kevin Kolb, John Beck, Drew Stanton in the 2nd, Trent Edwards in the 3rd, Isaiah Stanback, Jeff Rowe, Troy Smith, Jordan Palmer and Tyler Thigpen to round it out.  None ever reach a Pro Bowl, or really became a full time starter.

That's a decent top 4. I'm more partial to the 1989 draft: Aikman, Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, and Derrick Thomas. The 89 draft was stacked too. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_NFL_Draft
Actually looking at 1983, wow its a lot better than 1989. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_NFL_Draft
Its hard to pick a top 4 from 1983. Elway, Marino, Dickerson, Bruce Matthews/Darrell Green? Then there was Roger Craig, Curt Warner, Joey Browner, Richard Dent, Carl Mecklenberg, Anthony Carter et.al. 
The best draft ever is considered the Steelers in 1974. They didn't have a 3rd rounder so these were their 1st 4 picks. All in the HOF. 
-Lynn Swann  
-Jack Lambert
-John Stallworth
-Mike Webster
Oh IMO the best was Revis. The best CB of his generation (by a wide margin) and best CB since Woodson/Sanders.