Quote:I am trying to build a situation where the team is essentially getting next year's First Round pick a year early. Consider this scenario:

 

You are sitting there at the Seventh slot in the Second Round and you've got Buck Fever bad. There is a guy there that you want but you just know that those meany faces in Tampa Bay are going to take your guy. Houston has confirmed that they'll take your First Round pick next year and this year's Second for their pick at the top of the Second. What this means is that you give up next year's First Round pick for a guy this year. You say yes, and the assistant to the Night Manager of the NFL goes to the podium and reads the name of....?

 

The reason I presented the scenario that way is because I would like to know which player do you think will fall out of the First Round this year that represents First Round talent?

 

I echo the concerns previously stated that the cost for such a proactive trade would be prohibitive for my tastes, though I hasten to add such a trade would not be without precedent.  Bobby Beathard used to do these deals all the time with the Skins and later the Chargers.

 

Accordingly, I'd like to address the issue of first round talent that could be available in the second round.

 

For me, the name that readily leaps to mind is OSU LB Ryan Shazier.

 

I don't see him as a true 3-4 OLB, and 4-3 LBs tend to be devalued.

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