Do picks where the guy can't really play but is super athletic ever pan out? Thinking of Tyrus Thomas and other "pro day/combine warriors" who are more impressive for their athleticism than actual statistical accomplishments. Seems like Richardson has all the promise in the world to be a highly sought after aerobics instructor once he's cut from the roster.

You should be able to get his autograph at LA Fitness once he becomes your trainer in a few years.

Asked about the likelihood of Richardson playing early in the season, perhaps from Week 1, owner Jim Irsay offered a direct answer.

"I think it's important," Irsay said. "You get better by playing. I mean, practice and preseason games and watching in a quarterback room, that's great. But, man, I'll tell you, he'd get better by playing, and it's something that it is really important. Because, again, his development [is] so much of a key to the franchise's future. It is the critical key.

Who would you've taken if you were the GM? It's a lotto ticket with massive potential.

They have a team ready to go next year. They drafted a QB who is AT LEAST a year away from being able to start. They hated having to go after veteran QB year after year but now they will have to do so for two more years.

I love their draft otherwise.

Who would you've taken if you were the GM? It's a lotto ticket with massive potential.

Everyone is potentially a lotto ticket. I would have traded up for stroud or young if I wanted a rookie. It's one thing to take a DT or DE based on some combo of "potential", athleticism, and body type. It's another thing entirely to take a QB based on 100% projections and not on past production. Has that ever happened this high in the draft? They didn't draft a football player at four. They drafted an athlete.