Quote:....that doesn't mean they were right. 

 

I believe that Cleveland wanted to trade down the entire time and figured they could get a top player after that trade down and still get one of the 3 top QB of this draft later in the first round either at their pick or by trading up (which they did)

 

Caldwell has more sources than you do though.  And Walterfootball (again, not a great source to use, but whatever) said that two teams in the Top 5 had Bortles as their Top QB.  That they didn't take a QB when they traded down, and instead traded UP to grab a CB in Justin Gilbert, suggests that Manziel and Bridgewater weren't really THAT high on their list.  Houston was one of the two teams to have Bortles as the #1 QB.  They were QB needy teams, so you can cross of St. Louis (as much as they'd like a new QB I'm sure, they don't really NEED one just yet).  Given the surprise of WF -- Jacksonville probably wasn't one of those two teams to say they had Bortles ranked first.  That leaves Cleveland and Oakland.

 

It's not a stretch at all to believe that Cleveland would have taken Bortles if we hadn't.

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