WR James Washington: 2018 Draft Grade Retrospective

One of the most common things you hear after every draft is that grades can’t be finished until at least three years after a pick has been made. So after submitting my grades for every Steelers’ pick in this year’s class, I’m going back and revisiting picks from three years ago and beyond made by Pittsburgh. That continues today with the team’s second-round pick in 2018, wide receiver James Washington out of Oklahoma State.

I tweaked my exercise for grading this year’s draft to look at and give letter grades to past picks, based on six specific ways to view the pick (listed below), before taking all that analysis and combining it into a final letter grade. Those five viewpoints comprise much…