2005 NFL DRAFT-NOT GOOD.
The old adage is that it takes 4 or 5 years to evaluate a NFL draft class. Well, with the Bears cutting C-Ben, the #4 pick in the 2005 draft, we don't have to wait to conclude that the 2005 class will NOT go down as one of the great drafts in history. More to follow...
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Sing your sad song to somebody else, K. The Bears still have retained half of their 2005 draft class.
One of those picks, Kyle Orton, may yet be your starting quarterback.
Even your duds were OK. Benson did carry the ball for a Super Bowl team. Plus, the Bears even turned around their sixth round pick, Chris Harris, in a trade with the Panthers for a fifth round pick.
By contrast, the Vikings have a league-low 1 player on their roster from the 2005 draft: backup guard Marcus Johnson.
Keep in mind that the Vikings had two first rounders that year (Troy Williamson and Erasmus James who were subsequently traded for a sixth round pick and a CONDITIONAL seventh round pick).
In addition, the Vikings picked Dustin Fox and Adrian Ward (neither of whom ever played a down for the team), Ciatrick Fason (not re-signed), and C.J. Mosley (who was subsequently traded for soon-to-be-cut Brooks Bollinger).
As I've previously mentioned to HM, two other squads, Buffalo and Denver, have only 2 players a piece from their respective 2005 drafts. Of course, both of those squads would have 3 players on their respective rosters but for the paralysis of Buffalo's Kevin Everett and the murder of Denver's Darrent Williams ...
You beat me to the bunch on the Vikes' first round - two picks that are no longer with the team. One of those picks, Troy Williamson, is now with the Jags and that may result in Matt Jones being cut. My point is that this was the 1983 NFL fisrt round.
True enough. This is a brutal class, but there were decent players to be found, and my squad found none of them.
Sad but true.
Amazingly, the Vikings' draft class would have been worse had they gotten their way.
As the latter of the Vikings' two first rounders approached, the Vikings were desperately hoping to land David Pollack -- who would subsequently break his neck for the Bengals.
As the pick approached, I was hoping and praying the Vikings wouldn't be picking Pollack, but was still astounded that Erasmus James was the pick.
I seem to recall hoping that we'd pick up Marcus Spears who was picked up a few picks later by Dallas ...
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