I don't think Emery saw him as a reach, bruh. Jersey called it the Shea McClellan. I call it the Angelo approach: fixate on a guy, decide you need him, get scared he won't be there with your next pick and then pick the player a round too early. It fits a lot of Angelo picks (or maybe bad picks just fit the narrative). I think Angelo's draft room was incapable of handling the pressure of letting the draft come to them. Nervous that a guy might not be available, they lowered their sights, picked a safe target, then overdrafted them to avoid disturbing their plan. I'll bet they could have submitted their picks a week early and gotten everyone they wanted through this approach. All just thoughts from all the drafts I watched over the years. angelo was such a better drafter than Emery though. That description does work on guys like Bazuin, but that was a second round reach, and probably more to do with Lovies increased say in the draft and the supposed perfect fit.