2013 1 26 Datone Jones DE UCLA -> D
2013 2 61 Eddie Lacy RB Alabama -> B
2013 4 109 David Bakhtiari T Colorado -> B
2013 4 122 J.C. Tretter T Cornell -> C+
2013 4 125 Johnathan Franklin RB UCLA -> I
2013 5 159 Micah Hyde CB Iowa -> C+
2013 5 167 Josh Boyd DE Mississippi St. -> D
2013 6 193 Nate Palmer LB Illinois St. -> F
2013 7 216 Charles Johnson WR Grand Valley St. -> I
2013 7 224 Kevin Dorsey WR Maryland -> F
2013 7 232 Sam Barrington LB South Florida -> C
Overall about a C+ draft.
Jones is way too slow to be effective as an OLB. D Grade will likely drop to F if he fails at OLB as I suspect.
Lacy is not anywhere near an "A" an "A" draft choice doesn't get benched and nearly eat himself out of the league in year 3. Eddie had a terrible year last year.
Bakhtiari for his draft position has been a good find. He's a below average LT, though.
Tretter has done very little for us but offers us versatility on the OL which is a nice thing.
Hyde is just a guy. A decent player nothing special. Pretty good on punt returns. Sure handed.
Boyd has done next to nothing.
Palmer is an F. Not good at OLB and worse at ILB.
Dorsey is an F. Did nothing with us.
Barrington is a below average ILB. A head scratcher as to how he could be considered a starter. Very poor athleticism.
To get a LT, even though he's below average, in Round 4 is nice. Getting a RB who has shown some promise here and there is also nice...this year will determine which way Eddie's career is heading.
Hyde is just an all around decent football player. Tretter is nice insurance on the OL and looked good at C in preseason.
Overall, getting two backup bit players in Hyde and Tretter and two starters is a nice draft. Not overwhelmingly good by any means but not a total disaster like the two drafts that preceded it. Just because most of these picks are on our roster doesn't mean they're excellent picks. Where would you expect our roster to be filled from? We're almost all draft and one or two UDFA's per season. Other teams cut more of their picks rather than rely on them, not because we draft better but because they have other means of filling their roster. When our guys aren't great performers they stick. See Brad Jones and AJ Hawk starting at ILB for years and Barrington and Ryan riding top of the depth chart this season. Nominal NFL starters at very best case.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."