(03-06-2018, 12:36 PM)Deacon Wrote:

(03-06-2018, 12:23 PM)Bullseye Wrote: That caught my attention too, and I wondered about the trade back possibility, though I didn't quite interpret that as "only" expecting second round value.

As for the possibility of obtaining an early 2019 first round pick?  I'd feel a lot better about that possibility if we had Bobby Beathard in this draft. (1) He was notorious for doing that.  To me, the best chance of that happening, would be for one of the QBs to fall and a team get desperate. (2)

1. Well, the only option now is to get our own Bobby Beathard. This will be Caldwell's first time in this situation at the helm, but not Coughlin. Maybe he can provide some guidance for that although Coughlin always seemed to me to be more of a "trade up" guy than trade back.

2. I'm not so sure that's the only way though. I read somewhere about how Cleveland moved up from the early Second into the late first last year for a TE, Njoku. This makes me wonder if a player is sitting there that a team sees him as rounding out their roster, maybe that would be more enticing than a QB who fell. Again, I have no idea if this is true or not, it just makes me wonder.

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Well. for the record, I do not assert that a team wanting a QB is the ONLY way we could conceivably trade down from 29 out of the first round.  I DO believe, however, to make such a move to land us a first round pick next year, a team desperately looking for a QB is the best bet.  Yes, the Browns traded up into the late first round last year for Njoku.  But they didn't give up this year's first round pick to do it.  However, back in 2007, the Browns traded back into the bottom of the first round to draft Brady Quinn, and gave up the next year's first round pick to do so.

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