ORCHARD PARK – Success in the NFL Draft isn’t always linear, meaning sometimes your first-round pick isn’t automatically going to be better than your second-round pick, or your second-rounder ends up not as useful as your third-rounder, and so on.
Perhaps the most glaring example of the inexact science of the draft occurred in 2000 when the first quarterback taken was Marshall’s Chad Pennington by the Jets at No. 16 overall; someone named Giovanni Carmazzi from Hofstra was the next QB taken at No. 65 by the 49ers; and a guy named Tom Brady from Michigan was the sixth QB off
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