One of the most argued-over terms in the draft lexicon is best player available, a term that either means nothing or everything to you. For Terry Fontenot, it’s an ethos, but one that comes with qualifiers.
Taken at face value, best player available means best player regardless of position and roster need, and perhaps in spite of any off-the-field issues that might be following that player around. In practice, no general manager is making selections purely based on talent, and every team has their own unique way of defining best player available.
Terry Fontenot alluded to that on Tuesday in remarks to the press, talking about how BPA really means BPAFU (heh), or best player available for us.