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In response to
"I disagree that they don't draft for need."
by
Inigo
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Drafting for need and factoring in need are different things.
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Drafting for need is taking the best player at your biggest needs, no matter how much you rank them below other players at positions of less need. That fails because needs develop over the course of a season. Factoring in need is giving slight advantages to players in need positions ranked closely to other players. Every team does that, most probably do it when setting up their board (in part so that they can say they took the player rated highest on their board). Teams do something similar when they trade up a few spots to get players at need positions that likely won't drop to them. That is what Baltimore did in the 2nd, but they don't likely do that for a player they don't like a lot.
Had they taken their top ranked WR or LT at the end of the 3rd even if they were a tier or two below Williams, that would have been drafting for need.
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