re: Outside the top 4 in the draft who are the top 5 guys you want for this team?

I think once you get into the grey area in between objectively bad athleticism and measurables and objectively great athleticism and measurables, things often seem to fall apart in analysis.

Seems to be the case with Hield. I mentioned it elsewhere but go look at scouting reports on guys like Wesley Matthews. You could literally copy and paste the knocks on Matthews when it came to defensive potential and yet Matthews became one of the best in the league for his position.

As long as a player has enough measurables and athleticism to land somewhere above the minimum threshold - and by all accounts Hield has that - success as a defender largely comes down to IQ, effort, fundamentals and focus. And none of those things people would knock Hield for at his point in development.