Quenton Nelson (G-ND) Rd #1 Pick #6

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88

If I had to oversimplify your first question? Because you can have an All-Pro guard who busts his ass and does a great job, but is offset by bad OL play around him, and your QB still gets hurt or run game still shut down because the right side of your line is still incompetent.

Whereas you can have an occasional Pro Bowl MLB who is a threat to make a play any down, regardless of the talent around him, because he's off-ball and in a position to affect the play beyond a single matchup.

I get what you are saying, but it sounds like rooted more in your view that the team would have been better served to take a defensive player instead of an offensive lineman, rather that a criticism of the particular position that Nelson plays. What I was trying to get at was why a guard, in particular, can't ever be worthy of a high first round pick, since that seems to be a working assumption here.