Wednesday, May 1, 2013

1.15 Dallas Junglehawgs - RB Joseph Randle
(originally drafted by Pittsburgh)

In the real world: Scouts, Inc.'s report says not to expect much more than another RB who benefited from facing—sing it with me—soft Big 12 defenses: "Does not have much power and did not show ability to consistently churn out yards after contact. Will struggle to constantly break arm tackles." The Cowboys added him in Round 5 to provide crucial depth behind injury-prone DeMarco Murray.
In the TUFF world: The BIG PAPAS drafted him, again because they need depth at RB, then traded him to Dallas for WR Aaron Dobson (whom Dallas took at 1.16) and Dallas' #1 pick in 2015. So if you're keeping score, Pittsburgh has taken its 1.12 pick and turned it into Dobson, a future #1 and two future #2's. Not bad considering this year's draft is supposed to be one of the more shallow ones in TUFF history. A side note: Tampa Bay would have loved to have taken Randle to handcuff to Murray... but they had no Round 2 pick (traded for Kevin Kolb), and even if they hadn't traded it, it was ten picks lower than this one to begin with.

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