The Saints and Pels making as many "stay mediocre and almost relevant" moves and decisions as possible... has dampened my spirits for sure... not broken... but on the verge of wanting to watch golf.
Seriously. I think Bowers could be a great player, even Kittle level, but I'm not sure generational applies. There seems to be a guy very similar to him in the draft every year these days. I think it's because TE is becoming a glamour position and guys who might normally play other positions are looking to be TEs and coaches see them as like a Queen on a Chess board so are moving great athletes to the position. All the teen Swifities will be looking to date the TE, not the QB or DE in high school.
I'm disappointed not getting Bowers, but I think there will be other opportunities to get similar players if not in this draft then in the next few.
And, to be fair, they didn't make this move to not draft Bowers. The Raiders took him one pick before their pick. Could they have moved up? Maybe, but I don't think this team is one TE away from being good just like they aren't one OT away from being good. Would they have taken him at 14? Who knows. DA said there would have been a discussion, but we will never really know what they would have done.