Poll: Jabaal Sheard vs. Da'Quan Bowers in the 2nd Round

Health over hype, every time.

By the time the second round came up, I think it was worth the risk. Maybe Bowers is a bust because his knee gives out, but I think it’s fairly likely that he’s going to have at least 4 or 5 solid seasons, and if the knee doesn’t cause a problem his upside is so much higher than anyone else we could’ve grabbed in the 2nd round.

I was never a fan of Bowers. I like the choice of Sheard.

I was on Bowers’ bandwagon, but I am fully convinced his knee will need microfracture within 3 years. If teams didn’t think it was a major problem, he’d have been a first rounder.

I tend to wonder if they would have picked him instead of Little had he still been available. I also tend to wonder if drafting two players last year with knee history had any influence on the decision not to take him. Hardesty is already a big question mark as far as what we’ll get out of him. He may come back and be fine and produce for a while. But the knee issues will bother him in the future. Ward may also suffer from soreness or other problems in the future. I think they reasoned that we can’t afford to have three young guys on the roster with a history of injuries that will limit their contribution.

It just wasn’t worth it. A “first round talent” is useless on the IR.

i was shocked when i saw we passed on him for Sheard. i even called my boss, a Bungles fan, cause he wanted Bowers at 2 also instead of a QB. but as the article states, it must be a testament for how bad his knee really was. even as much as i thought Heckert loved Bowers that wasn’t enough. i honestly still don’t know a whole bunch of Bowers and Sheard, but i figure if raw talent is pretty equal for them we didn’t lose anything with Sheard because we can always develop his technique.

Too many teams thought the same thing that we did. There must be something with that knee. No way a guy with his talent slips all the way to #51 soley based on a rumor that he has a bum knee.

Sheard created havoc for my Mountaineers, I’ll be glad to root for him instead now.

Yeah, and when you invest an opinion like that, you might want to know what you´re saying.

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Just came by to say i like the pick of Jabaal SHeard, he’s really impressive

I got off the Bowers train a long time ago. There is plenty of doubt to go around and teams can only accept so much risk in known injuries, character concerns or lack of reps (for whatever reason).

We took some chances with Little and Cameron. However, they look like prudent risks for where they were selected.

Something that is commonly done (according to Kiper and McShay), when team doctors say a player is no good because of health reasons, is teams will take them off their board completely. So even if a player with first round talent, who is an injury no-go by doctors, who slides to round two, may not be on a teams board. I have no idea if the Browns were a team like that, but it’s possible he wasn’t on our board at all.