Quote:I stand corrected.   I forgot that Anthony Smith was with the Jaguars.   He's a former Safety I associated with the Steelers mostly but to some extent the Packers.  Smith's career went downhill in a hurry.

 

The reason why a team would make a trade along these lines is the demand for the player's service is very limited.   Being that the player is going to be cut anyway,  it usually would make more sense to try to at least get a conditional pick than get nothing at all.   While the conditional pick often results in nothing at all when the dust settles,  at least there's a chance a late round pick might end up coming back the team's way that traded the player.