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If Caldwell was really worried of a team leapfrogging us he would just offer a trade himself.  Say he offers a 5th and our 1st to move up one spot it's a win/win for both teams.  The Rams have Sam Bradford who has a career rating of over 90.  They are in desperate need of protection so they are going Jake Matthews.  The Jags may want to go either a QB or Clowney in the 1st round.  There is no danger of the Jags taking another tackle because Joeckle will be 100% by training camp and the 2 current starting tackles are playing pretty well. 

Well, kinda sorta, but if the team holding, say, the 6th pick calls up and offers that pick plus a second-round pick this year, along with first and third-round picks next year, the Rams would probably take that offer over our fifth this year.

 

Top-ten jumps involving only a single mid-round pick are pretty rare. Tampa took us up on it for Blackmon because they knew that their guy would be there at seven, so why not pick up a selection? Cleveland traded from four to three for Richardson because they were being run by a group of absolute idiots who were psyched into trading up a slot for him, then psyched into drafting a 28-year-old QB of the "future" later in the first round. Point being, if there's someone who's really worth trading up for there, especially if that someone is a QB or DE, there will probably be multiple bids.

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