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Regret Pick - Colts selecting DE Tyrone Crawford over HB C.J. Anderson

This is not so much an indictment on Crawford than it is the nature of DEs in the league. The list of bench DEs ascending to become long-term, quality starters is quite small. Even taking bench player very loosely and including those who only sat their rookie season, the group might just include Broncos DE Chris Johnson, the Falcons duo of Doug Worthington and Josh Julmiste, and Bucs DE Adrian Awasom (several more DEs need more starting experience to evaluate). I guess the point is that while every other position has multiple paths to success, you are severely limited at DE.

Crawford will likely not be the next great DE, and while he was the fourth DE taken in that round, the Colts had much bigger needs to address that would have been worth the 51st pick, such as a new HB that could become Steven Jackson's successor (it won't be McCoy). They would have been better off using that 2nd round pick in RFA and use it to hopefully sign someone like Packers CB Larry Stanley or Lions WR Torrey Smith.
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