FIND THE FLAW
Last season HNFNR finished dead last at 4-10. This draft is what a response looks like: the grade said A-, the desk says seventh, and both are honest, and the difference is a lesson in what a draft can and cannot buy.
What Arfan bought: the best three-position top end in the league. Burrow at 7.07, Smith-Njigba in the first, Brock Bowers in the third. Add Zay Flowers and Brian Thomas Jr. and the passing game is finished, cleanly, at fair prices. The construction score came back perfect. Jayden Reed at pick 138 and Michael Wilson at 114 were the two best late receiver values anyone found.
What he could not buy: a second running back. Henry at pick 18 was a gift the room let happen, and Henry carries an age curve. Behind him stand Rhamondre Stevenson and Tony Pollard, two men whose ceilings are best described as "employed." In a league that starts two backs plus a flex, seventh is what elite-everywhere-else looks like.
League historians will remember that Arfan once announced "I'm vetoing everyone" on principle. The desk admires the energy, and notes that you cannot veto a depth chart.