If they ranked Pugh 21 and Frederick 22, why trade all the way down to 31 to get either? Why not draft them right there at 18? According to this genius board, they would have risked losing the Last of the Mohicans by dropping 13 slots.
No, they knew Frederick would be there, so the 22 ranking is BS.
Because even though Frederick is their "22nd" ranked player, he's technically got a second round grade.
We had a huge argument about this subject back in the day (not necessarily me and you, I mean "me and the rest of the board"). Something about the Cowboys only assigning first round grades to 18 players or something, to which I responded, well, that's retarded, they should just rank their top 32 players and then ALL those players should be first rounders. Because conceivably if you are picking 32, the first 31 players on your board could be gone. In theory.
Instead, the Cowboys apply an arbitrary standard of how good a "first round pick" should be and then they are only willing to select players they think are that good in the first round. The problem is that the quality of the draft changes yearly and therefore some first rounds are going to have weaker players in them that might not live up to that standard every year. It doesn't mean you should lose your minds like the Cowboys always seem to do at the end of the round.
Maybe this is why we can't draft at the back of a round. Our drafts are only good when we are picking at the top. All our favorites go early in rounds and we are generally left scrambling for leftovers or players we have rated out of line with the rest of the league.
It just doesn't make any sense to remove so many players like they do. I mean, I understand that their logic is "these players don't fit us for some reason" but I think they are very clearly leaving out way too many players they are simply wrong about.