Buckeye Draft - Rounds 11-15
We move into Day 3 of the Buckeye Draft after the weekend. We will cover rounds 11-15. For those who did not read about it on Day One or Two, I will cut and paste from our first post what the draft is about, etc... I also will start a new poll since the teams have changed with everyone picking up five more players for their rosters. You can see how the teams look position-by-position here up to this point.
We are very excited to roll out our Buckeye Draft that spans the last 30 years on the field at Ohio State. Dan, Marc, Miles, Ryan and myself all drafted teams from a pool of players that included everyone who has played at Ohio State from between the 1985 and 2014 seasons in a round-by-round fashion. As a site we did a piece like this about five years ago and it turned out well and generated a lot of conversation.
In the piece we kind of talk about the draft rules. When a position closed out to all but one person, you were required to close the position with your next pick (to keep people from sandbagging once a position was mostly closed) and this also created the need (as you will see in later rounds) for people to make runs at positions that may not normally go as high in a draft.
We also made a decision to separate out the "return specialist" in a way that you didn't have to have the rights to him in another position. Some great receivers here never returned kicks or punts and we didn't want to skew the draft by making that linked.
We hope this third piece generates as much conversation as the first couple did. We will release rounds 16-20 on Tuesday.
We move into Day 3 of the Buckeye Draft after the weekend. We will cover rounds 11-15. For those who did not read about it on Day One or Two, I will cut and paste from our first post what the draft is about, etc... I also will start a new poll since the teams have changed with everyone picking up five more players for their rosters. You can see how the teams look position-by-position here up to this point.
We are very excited to roll out our Buckeye Draft that spans the last 30 years on the field at Ohio State. Dan, Marc, Miles, Ryan and myself all drafted teams from a pool of players that included everyone who has played at Ohio State from between the 1985 and 2014 seasons in a round-by-round fashion. As a site we did a piece like this about five years ago and it turned out well and generated a lot of conversation.
In the piece we kind of talk about the draft rules. When a position closed out to all but one person, you were required to close the position with your next pick (to keep people from sandbagging once a position was mostly closed) and this also created the need (as you will see in later rounds) for people to make runs at positions that may not normally go as high in a draft.
We also made a decision to separate out the "return specialist" in a way that you didn't have to have the rights to him in another position. Some great receivers here never returned kicks or punts and we didn't want to skew the draft by making that linked.
We hope this third piece generates as much conversation as the first couple did. We will release rounds 16-20 on Tuesday.
