As the draft creeps into the horizon, we are running out of annual draft trope articles. One we haven’t seen yet is a thorough discussion of draft steals.
Ryan Wilson over at CBS Sports endeavored to fix that in his recent piece, as he worked his way through every team to determine their biggest draft steal in franchise history. I’m not sure what his exact criteria for a “steal” is, but it appears he only considers players drafted after the third round.
David Garrard, QB, 2002 fourth-round pick
The Jaguars considered Garrard a backup when they drafted him, and that helps explain why they used a top-10 pick on Byron Leftwich in 2003.