You can draft well and still miss the point. The Commanders did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to interior defensive lineman, which was the need that mattered most.

They are betting Pratt proves the room right and everyone else wrong. It is a bet on later, and a defensible one for a team playing the long game.

Job largely done: wide receiver settled and 7 of 8 of the wish list covered.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.