Quote:The thing that I don't like about your draft Blue Eyes, is that in my opinion there are four top-tier playmakers available in this draft. In no particular order they are Bridgewater, Clowney, Mack, and Watkins. In your scenario, we didn't get any of them. I like having picks and all, but I like having top tier players even more.

 


I agree on this.  Teddy went #1 so he was off the board.  I tried to make the trades seems realistic and not just what the "simulator" gave me and in order to get those trades you have to have top-tier players to offer.

 

Atlanta is known to want Clowney and both the Jags/Falcons FOs are connected so its an easy trade.  As I noted in the draft, Mack goes off the board @ #5...if he had been there I would have gladly taken Mack + an early 3rd &4th for Clowney. 

 

Watkins was very tempting @ #6 but I feel in a deep draft and our WR corp being one of our "better" groups on the team that he could be passed over.  I know that St. Louis GM has a connection to Atlanta GM and that they want a WR badly and had to get in front of Detroit @ 10.  I assume that Caldwell has some connection to the St. Louis GM so its another realistic trade oppurtunity.

 

After the above 4 were gone, the only player I like as an impact scheme fit is CB - Dennard - Michigan State but as luck/risk had it he goes @ #12.  At this point, nobody in my eye seemed worth #13 but Carolina wanting to replace Jordan Gross and get ahead of Arizona gave an offer that seemed to be worth it in order to grab Greg Robinson.

 

In this draft, I feel you get your:

1 - Impact Leo in Dee Ford

2 - Jack of all trades LB that can rush/cover in Van Noy

2 - Last impactful OG as Yankey/Jackson went off the board which caused me to trade - Sua'Filo

3 - TE that can stretch the seam and best TE left on the board - Nicklas

3 - A WR that has #1 WR tools but just needs to put it all together - Moncrief

3 - A Scheme fit CB in Jean-Baptiste

3 -  Your Developmental QB that you hope can possibly start midway thru the season - Garoppolo

4 - Dynamic HB in Seastrunk

4 - Some have as the #1 OC in the draft - Martin

 

My thinking I guess is which of these Options would you want:

 

A: Clowney (keeping pick #3)

B: Mack, Moncrief or Jean-Baptiste, and Seastrunk or Garoppolo (trading #3 for #6, #70, #90)

C: Ford, Moncrief, Sua'Filo, Jean Baptiste ,Garoppolo, Seastrunk (trading #6 for #28, #60,#92 or basically #3 for #28,60,70,90,92)

 

This is assuming our assigned picks went:

2nd - Van Noy

3rd - Nicklas

4th - Seastrunk or Garoppolo

4th - Martin

5th - Caron Reid

5th - Hubbard

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