The drafting of Najee Harris and then Kenny Pickett in the first rounds are looking worse and worse as time goes on. I’m not a Kenny hater, or even a Najee hater. I am still holding out hope for Kenny and I think Najee is a situational back, but I can’t help but feel like we wasted our first round draft picks two years in a row. Kenny showed promise but has seemed to regress.
If Colbert gets blame for drafting then Tomlin needs just as much blame for not adjusting the scheme to the talent.
You don’t draft someone like Artie who was strictly a man coverage corner to come in here and play mainly zone. But this isn’t even a case of panic or drafting for a position of need because Howard, Bradberry, and Fuller were still on the board.
So the talent evaluation was clearly lacking.
I love what Tomlin has done for the team and I still think he can get this team back on track. But he can’t be blameless in this IMO.