It wasn't as crazy as last year, when the Oakland Raiders selected Maryland receiver Darius Heyward-Bey with the seventh pick overall, but they again went with a counter-intuitive choice in inside linebacker Rolando McClain with the eighth overall pick. He figured to go no earlier than 11th and could have gone in the middle of the round.
That doesn't make it a bad pick, but you have to figure -- like last year -- that the Raiders could have picked up a late pick by trading down several slots and probably still getting McClain. That said, the conventional wisdom on the Raiders this year was that they would go with one of the top offensive or defensive tackles.
Too early to tell whether the ripples from that choice could impact the Ravens late in the first round, but the draft has already taken a couple of unexpected turns, so that's certainly possible.