(04-05-2020, 01:38 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(04-05-2020, 01:10 PM)JagJohn Wrote: Is it me or are your posts getting wordier? Always worth a read either way.

I, like a few others on here, love the idea of trading down from 9... And then trading up from 20... Leaving us with two picks in the 12-16 range and enabling us to get two of the bonafide studs in that range. The more difficult part will be the trade up from 20, because other teams will also be aware of the point in the draft where the talent drops.

As for specific teams and players that could produce a trade, I think there is a decent chance a run on OTs starts early and Tampa feel pressure to move up and secure a stud to protect Brady. They could come up to 9 for that. Of course, if one of the top 3 QBs is there at 9, I imagine they would get plenty of calls.

I got a little carried away with that post.  The result of two weeks of house arrest thanks to COVID 19.

Mea culpa.

As for QBs, trade discussions/speculations usually center around QBs, but I specifically did not mention it here because almost no teams between 9-say 20 will likely need a QB by the time we are on the clock with the 9th pick. 

Cleveland and the Jets are set with 3rd year guys Mayfield and Darnold.  The Raiders and Gruden typically like vets, and they have to decent ones in Carr and Mariota.  Atlanta has Ryan, the 9ers have Garoppolom, Denver just found Lock, Dallas has Dak and Miami likely will have drafted Tua or Herbert.

Teams who might need a QB like New Orleans, New England and Green Bay pick too far down to trade up to 9 and are more appropriate in any trade down discussions with the 20th pick.