A feeling of irresponsibility arises whenever a draft class is evaluated too soon. Rarely is one season enough of a sample to properly grade out an NFL rookie. Unexpected events and character-driven aspects of a personality oftentimes don’t pop up until well after that first year.
That doesn’t mean a draft class should be totally ignored in the early going—especially as it relates to an organization struggling to string tremendous drafts together.
Joe Douglas‘s first draft class as a big-boy general manager looks pretty legit. So legit that it just might be the New York Jets‘ best draft class in well over a decade.