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(01-10-2023, 07:28 PM)WVUHomer Wrote: Fair enough. So you don't trade up for Robinson but take Gibbs? Still more money to go around for Chase and the D pieces with no Mixon salary.

And we trade, just down usually. In my entire life (33), I can only think of 4 instances in which we traded up. CTB, Anderson, and MJ (there may be more but the biggest ones i can remember).

Now for trading down: Chris Perry, Mixon, Carman (which resulted in 3 players), D. Sample, etc.

Can Gibbs handle an NFL starting workload? Solid chance he weighs in at under 200 (he's listed at 200 exactly which seems suspiciously exact), he's never had more than 151 carries in a year, and has only reached 20+ carries 3 times in 31 career games.

I think I would rather have Zach Charbonnett in the 2nd round if we're assuming we will be picking 31st or 32nd in each round.

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In the Taylor era I'm assuming by MJ you mean Michael Jordan the guard. We also traded up for Ryan Finley. 

Outside of the Taylor era we also traded up for Ji-Jana Carter, Russell Bodine, Matt Schobel. Trading up has been real rough. Trading down is mostly rough because we always seem to miss out on a better player of that same position...

Trade down and get Mixon, miss out on Dalvin Cook.
Trade down and get Perry, miss out on Steven Jackson.
Trade down and get Zeitler, miss out on David DeCastro.
Sorta traded down and got Price, had to have Bobby Hart and missed out on Frank Ragnow.
Trade down and get Sample, didn't miss out on a great TE, but missed out on Elgton Jenkins and AJ Brown.

Carman trade down only resulted in 2 players, because you were going to have 1, you traded it and got 3, so you added 2. Those two were Tyler Shelvin and D'Ante Smith. Those 3 have combined for a grand total of 34 offense and defensive snaps this year.

The best it's ever worked out for the Bengals is they traded down, still got the same guy they were aiming for in Jessie Bates, and added Malik Jefferson who was a 3rd round pick that lasted 1 year on the team. Neutral is the best trading around has ever seemed to work for the Bengals in the draft. They're just not good at it for whatever reason, probably due to their lack of scouts.