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Mike Jones does a great job quantifying a pretty massive shift in our contributors under McCloughan. 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2015/10/05/five-observations-from-the-redskins-win-over-the-eagles-4/

 

 

4. Draft picks filling the lineup – McCloughan and Gruden have both expressed a desire to be a team that is constructed almost exclusively with homegrown talent. There are exceptions, and some needs that must be met through free agency. But they want to draft and develop their own talent as much as possible.

With Spencer Long in the lineup on Sunday, Washington played four draft picks along the line (center Kory Lichtensteiger being the lone exception, but he signed here in 2010 and has developed here as well after an unfruitful season in Denver and another in Minnesota). On offense, eight of the 11 starters were draft picks. (Lichtensteiger, Garcon and tight end Derek Carrier were acquired by free agency or via trade).

On defense, six of the 11 starters (Ryan Kerrigan, Trent Murphy, Keenan Robinson, Will Compton, Bashaud Breeland and Kyshoen Jarrett) were Redskins draft picks. Another draft pick, Jamison Crowder, shined on offense as he bumped Andre Roberts from the rotation and recorded seven catches for 65 yards, including a clutch 22-yard leaping catch on a third down. Chris Thompson (fifth-rounder 2013) made contributions as a backup, as did outside linebacker Preston Smith (second-rounder this spring).

 

I think this is a fantastic development and it's amazing that it came together this quickly. Granted, when Jackson and Lavauo return, it eats into those numbers a bit. But, in general, most of our contributions come from OUR guys. That's very encouraging!

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I posted something similar in one of the threads.  The number of draft picks over the last 2 years that are major contributors from the Eagles game was 9. (Long, Moses, Murphy, Breeland, Grant from 2014 draft, Scherff, Matt Jones, Crowder and Preston Smith from 2015).

 

That's a lot of guys from the last 2 drafts.  

 

Let's peak at the 2013 draft: Jordan Reed, Chris Thompson are the only two left.  Reed is extraordinarily talented, but oft injured.  Chris Thompson has been oft injured, but coming into his own. 

 

2012: Cousins, K. Robinson and Morris currently leading the way here.  Ribbs, T. Compton, and Griffin are still on the roster.  

 

2011: This is probably the most disappointing draft class recently.  They had 12 picks.  12!  And the only guys remaining are Kerrigan and Niles Paul, who's on IR.  That's it.  1 guy from that entire class is producing.  

 

(Goodbye Jenkins, Hankerson, Helu, Gomes, Royster, Aldrrick Robinson, Brandyn Thompson, Maurice Hurt, Markus White and Chris Neild.)  

 

2010: Trent Williams, Perry Riley.  That's it.  

 

2006: The next draft class that is represented is 2006, with Kedric Goldston.  

 

If you look at the best teams in the league, they tend to have some blue-chip type players in years 4-8 of their NFL careers that they drafted.  We have 1.  Trent, who's in his 5th year.  

 

But the trend is turning.  The 2014 draft looks reasonably good, and the 2015 draft is looking pretty good for the rookies.  

 

Keep doing that a few years, and you're going to have huge success.  But it's going to take a while.

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Jordan Reed may just retire. He has suffered too many concussions. So that draft class has been terrible.

But the last two have been fantastic. The fans forced Bruce Allen to hire a GM last year with the help of the media, but the one year when he was our GM, he drafted well. Now, free agency was not that great.

But damn, this draft class looks even better.

Kyshoen Jarrett is looking like a major steal.

Scherff may eventually be a great player.

Preston Smith has two sacks and is a contributor.

Matt Jones is looking like a good player.

Crowder looking like a damn good player.

5 guys who are good players.

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I had to bump this thread, but this draft class has turned into one of the best classes in recent memory in terms of real contributing players all around the board. We've had classes that produced ST and Cooley and no one else, and plenty of bad classes, who were out of football a couple years later.. But the 2015 has to rank up there as one of the best..

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