10-13-2023, 09:32 PM
(10-13-2023, 07:29 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don’t pay all that much attention to the draft outside of the Bengals. What exactly were the Eagles able to do?
They just trade down in the NFL draft a lot, which results in future draft picks that usually end up much more valuable than the picks they gave up the previous year. To track the origins of this particular pick would span multiple drafts and lots of trades.
In the 2021 NFL draft, they traded from #6 to #12 and got an extra 1st round pick in 2022.
In 2022, they traded their 2 first round picks, 16th and 19th, to the Saints in the 2022 NFL draft in exchange for the #18 pick and the Saints' 2023 pick.
The 2022 Saints ended up being worse than expected, so that pick ended up the #10 pick. They then only needed to trade up 1 pick to get Jalen Carter, whereas if they hadn't made that trade, they would have had to trade up from the 31st overall pick, which would have cost much more draft capital.
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