ravidubey
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Spears was overdrafted in hindsight, but the decision made sense at the time. Our scouting team plain got it wrong if Parcells was considering taking him at 12, but at 21 or wherever we ended up taking him he seemed to be slotted OK based on publications and other resources we fans have. We don't have other teams' draft boards, so we'll never know if Spears was truly overdrafted based on what the team should have known.I just admitted the other day that Spears was overdrafted; will you say the same about Claiborne?
Claiborne was considered by consensus (again according to publications) the best defensive player in the 2012 draft. Regardless of how one feels about the position he plays, he was not drafted beyond the slot where he should have gone.
The poor decision on Dallas' part was in trading 1st and 2nd round picks to get him given their obvious needs at multiple positions and having already signed Carr and Scandrick to big deals. Hard to say that Claiborne will ever be equal to both Bobby Wagner (who already has a Superbowl ring) and Michael Brockers, but by that standard everyone drafted in the top ten outside of Andrew Luck was overdrafted.
Hindsight will tells us how effective Claiborne was relative to the other defensive players in that draft. In that group Kuechly and Poe look to be studs, and of the others... Mark Barron, Quentin Coples, Dre Kirkpatrick, Fletcher Cox, Brockers, Wagner, etc, etc ... none are exactly setting the world on fire.
Claiborne has been a strong addition to the defense when he's healthy. That's the key for him, staying healthy, and not trying to be better than Wagner and Brockers combined. That's Jerry's fault, not Claiborne's.