Teams that invest heavily in free agency don’t always see a good return on their investment (Albert Haynesworth says ”Hi”), but that doesn’t mean that “building through free agency” is necessarily wrong - especially if your team’s drafts have not produced the hoped-for results.
But is ‘building through the draft’ still a relevant concept today, or is it more or less a relic from pre-free agency days? And what’s the alternative to building through the draft, “building through free agency”?
One of the concepts we hear and read about during draft season is “building through the draft” how important it is, how it’s the key to success in the NFL, how dynasties are built off it, blah, blah, blah.
