I understand this thought process but don’t agree with it. At some point, even very different prospects are not easily differentiated in terms of future success.I may be in the minority but the whole Dolphins not falling in love with one player thing is a little odd to me. Pitts, Smith, Waddle, and Chase aren't the same player. I would consider it almost a disservice for the front office to just let either of the 4 fall to them. I would hope that they have done their due diligence and have ranked these guys and have a clear cut number 1. That is of course if they are going to take a WR/Playmaker. Being undecided about ranking these guys is our job as fans. The GM and coach get paid to make these tough decisions. Just my humble opinion.
With that being said, my ranking changes daily. I would probably go Pitts, Smith, Chase, Waddle right now.
Chase, Smith, and Waddle are probably all going to be very good NFL players. They are also all very different. All have strengths that may carry them to greatness and weaknesses that may render them average. Realistically, I don’t think any scouting department in the league can tell you with any degree of confidence which will turn out best, and most scouting departments probably aren’t unanimous in their own internal evaluation of the ordering of those three. Nobody’s got a crystal ball.
So if you’ve got three guys with roughly equivalent odds of success on the board, and you can either throw a dart with all three on the board or move back, add an asset, and take whichever one falls to you, I’m firmly in the “add an asset and take whichever one falls to you” camp.
Now, if your eval sucks and they’re not all roughly equivalent and the two guys who go before your guy end up much better players, then that’s a scouting issue. But in terms of methodology, I don’t see any problem with having an essentially equivalent score on three different guys. For example, I bet the Bills had roughly equivalent scores on Mayfield, Darnold, and Allen (and maybe even Rosen) in 2018. They didn’t move up and make their own destiny—they took the one who fell to them, saved their assets, and it worked out. That’s good scouting.