Lessons learned from the 2018 NFL Draft, with Conor Orr
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🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Five years ago, Baker Mayfield was the first pick in the NFL Draft. Saquon Barkley was the second pick. Lamar Jackson was the last player selected in the first round. The Colts hit a home run...but at what expense? Robert Mays and Sports Illustrated's Conor Orr look back at that draft, and how it can be instructive this year and in the future, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:51.0 | Joining me today from the MMQB, one of my favorite people to read, to listen to, to talk about football with. |
| 0:57.9 | It's Connor Rourke. |
| 0:58.5 | Connor, thank you very much for joining us again. Thanks for having me, Robert. What's going on? Not a whole lot. You know, we're about a month before the draft. And when I sit here and think about just draft coverage in general on how we want to program the show in the month for the draft, a few different buckets that I like to fill. |
| 1:13.6 | We'll talk about the specific prospects. |
| 1:15.5 | And on Friday, we talked about circumstances around quarterbacks and why that matters because I think it's important to give some context on the team side of this stuff as it relates to the prospects in this process. |
| 1:27.1 | But I also like doing historical |
| 1:28.7 | lookbacks. You know, last year, me and Barnwell did a show that I thought was a blast where |
| 1:32.5 | we talked about how the 2016 draft kind of shaped the league with all of the ripple effects. And I |
| 1:38.4 | think the onus for that was just thinking about that J-1 Ramsey, Ezekiel Elliott sliding doors |
| 1:42.7 | moment for the Cowboys, but there were so |
| 1:44.4 | many more of those. So when I was looking back at some of the stuff I wanted to talk about this |
| 1:48.5 | year, I realized it was five years since the 2018 draft. And that 2018 draft has kind of shaped |
| 1:55.2 | the league in all of these different ways. And it was notable because we had all these quarterbacks |
| 1:59.2 | go in the top 10, guys that have become superstars, guys that have flamed out. And it was notable because we had all these quarterbacks go in the top 10, guys that have |
| 2:01.5 | become superstars, guys that have flamed out. And there are a few other interesting picks in the top |
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