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(02-08-2022, 12:23 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: This is why you trade up in the draft to nab the best corner available (Sauce Gardner). You can cut Apple out and upgrade at corner back with a guy on a rookie contract for 5 years.

We need to stop thinking like a rebuilding team and start using draft capital to obtain quality players. I am all for trading up to get quality players over quantity or trading picks to get proven talent on reasonable contracts. Everything should be about "win now" while Burrow and Chase are on their rookie deals.

You would have to give up multiple future first round picks to move up high enough to draft him. They should not, and will not do that. 

I'm not opposed to giving up picks for proven players (similar to what the Rams have done, but on a smaller scale), but you're looking at trading 1st round picks in 22, 23, and 24 for Sauce Gardner, who may or may not end up being worth it. We will need first round picks to sustain success, whether they're used to pick college players, or trade for proven commodities.