Draft Strategy Quotes

I always wanted to be the No. 1 pick, but come draft night anything can happen - trades, or anything like that.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

I used to tell people that in 2012 when I was trying to understand where am I most likely to be drafted and who are the three or four teams that have pursued me the most and it would make sense that they would pick me, I never thought of who would be least likely to draft me.

You have to build your core nucleus of your team through your draft. What that does is you basically introduce them to your culture and your environment. Then, as guys begin to perform and play to that level, then you say, 'You know what? You guys deserve an extension, so here it is.'

I still wake up thinking about draft choices we should have made that would have impacted the franchise for a long time, but I don't wake up thinking about one individual player move.

I talk about the NFL Draft on a daily basis because this is the sport I cover - this is the show I do - and I talk about everything that's taking place every single day.

I didn't even care where I was drafted.

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!

Obviously, when you take a quarterback, when you take anybody in the first round, it means something.

Need always plays into your decisions more as the draft unfolds.

You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

So, there's no guarantee in the NFL that if you've got the No. 1 pick or you've got a top-five pick, that you're going to be able to draft a franchise quarterback.

When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you had interest in acquiring. That doesn't die.

The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.

You want to be in the first round. That's the dream. That's what you see on draft night.

No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.

You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.

When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.

I'm a GM in fantasy basketball and I'm a GM on PlayStation, so on PlayStation I probably would have got a little more, but this is real life, so I don't know.

The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.