Earlier on Friday, I wrote about how the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots both selected running backs late in the first round, bucking a long trend of avoiding any backs in the second half of day one among all 32 NFL teams. I believe this is the two organizations (namely Pete Carroll/John Schneider and Bill Belichick) saying that there is a market inefficiency on running backs going in the late first, and that they’ll get the most value by finding a superstar at that position when the other 30 teams let them slide by because “We don’t do that anymore.
Seahawks, Patriots continue to tread the same path in the NFL Draft
