Best Drafting the Past 5 / 10 Years?

[Don Vito]

Originally Posted by Matthew Jones

You could also say though, that New England drafted Brady, Ridley, Gronkowski, Hernandez, Solder, Mankins, and Vollmer on offense, with Wendell as a UDFA.

On defense, Wilfork, Jones, Mayo, Spikes, Hightower, Dennard, and McCourty were all draft picks, with Love as a UDFA.

Welker and Talib were also acquired with draft picks, leaving only Lloyd, Connolly, Ninkovich, Arrington, and Gregory as free agents, meaning that almost all of New England's starters were acquired through the draft or through trades involving draft picks.

You can't deny that 2006-2008 was one of the most awful stretch of drafts a team has had in recent memory. Those are guys that would be in their primes right now helping this team win. Instead we got nothing out of those years' classes.