As the second decade of the 2000s ends, it will also mark 10 years of evaluating players at Bleacher Report. There have been hits—Alshon Jeffery and Michael Thomas are the most notable—and oh, have there been misses (thanks, Trent Richardson).
But most of all, there have been lessons about the art of evaluating.
Each draft hit or miss allows the evaluator to learn. Why a certain player makes it or doesn't should always be looked at after the fact. For misses like Richardson, you learn about will, work ethic and what injuries can do to a player's mentality.