There’s a difference between hopeful expectations and heaping a ton of credit on someone unnecessarily. There’s a difference between hoping someone will be good and knowing someone will be good. The Philadelphia Eagles took Avonte Maddox in the fourth round of 2018’s NFL Draft (125th overall). In doing so, they were saying two things simultaneously.
First, they didn’t know how good he’d be, and second, the hope was he’d grow into someone that could contribute effectively and do so consistently.
Here are a few things that we know are true about the NFL Draft.