re: Frank Jackson Highlights: This is How We Do It

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It is PR bullshite, but like you said, it's a good strategy they should have started 4 years ago. If this is truly a market inefficiency Demps has discovered, will he be around long enough to see it pay off?

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I wouldn't necessarily say it is PR bullshite. Pels have not directly tried to sell the narrative that these guys are proxy 1st rounders for the following year, they just see it that way because of the redshirt year both need. Both were top 25 recruits, both were McDonalds All Americans, both disappointed their freshman year, both are raw talents with upside, and both would have projected as 1st rounders had they stayed in school.

I don't think it is a market inefficiency, but rather a worthwhile gamble at the top of the 2nd round. Second rounders that turn into anything are rare so go for the homerun. Great tools that you believe were not fully utilized in college and you hope to develop. Using second rounders means if they don't pan out, no big deal. They get 3 year slightly above minimum deals. You have 3 years to develop them and turn them into at minmimum role players with their rookie year being a redshirt. If they show as decent role players, you re-sign them (age 22) to a reasonable deal and try to take them to the next level on the next contract.

You give them very limited minutes in situations where they can succeed with their natural talent. If so they can also potentially be used in trades if necessary as upside young guys because they still can't buy a beer, but have shown in limited minutes against "NBA" players. However, I think the best use for them is to fill out the roster with young talent that should have cheap 2nd contracts with bird rights.