In one very important way, a free agent class is also the BEST TIME to actually grade a team’s draft class. We all know that fans and media are quick to jump on assessing the quality of a draft within seconds of every pick being made, and we also know how ridiculously, ludicrously wrong those assessments tend to be with hindsight.
But it was easy to predict that NFL analysts would give the L.A. Rams a poor grade in 2018 no matter what they did, because Les Snead wouldn’t be on the board until late in the third round of the draft.