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Right and Wrong 3 years later 2012 draft

I always go back after three years to see how my evaluations worked out in terms of overall performance. A three year window gives you a pretty great way to view how you evaluated talent overall, and takes away some one year wonders. That being said, I think I ended up with some major hits, and some major misses from the 2012 draft. Let's start with the big misses first. Biggest Miss - Trent Richardson 94 overall grade. Richardson is one of the biggest busts of the past decade, and not only did teams miss once on him, they missed twice. He cost the Colts a first round draft pick to Cleveland, and now he's a health scratch during the playoffs. So I don't feel so badly that I missed on Richardson too, because so did everyone else. Big Misses, but have shown flashes - Robert Griffin III (4th overall grade) Matt Kalil (97 overall grade) Morris Claiborne (96 overall grade) In my defense these guys really have shown flashes of being brilliant players. RGIII did win the