Try LA’s Strategy?

[CJD]

If you can consistently draft late, I think it has incredible value.

The Rams have traded away 6 first round picks that have since been used, with 2 more that have yet to be used. They've also traded away like 3 2nd round picks and a few 3rd round picks as well.

However, in the years that they traded away a first round pick, the position of those picks in the first round have been:
2016: 15th overall
2017: 5th overall
2018: 23rd overall
2019: 31st overall
2020: 20th overall
2021: 25th overall
2022: 31st overall
2023: TBD

The first two years were a pretty steep cost, but if Goff had worked out they'd have been worth it for a franchise QB. But from 2018 to 2022, they averaged a draft position of 26th overall. And the players drafted with those selections have been...less than exemplary.

2016 was Corey Coleman
2017 was Corey Davis
2018 was Isaiah Wynn
2019 was Kaleb McGary
2020 was K'Lavon Chaisson
2021 was Travis Etienne

I think there's like 1 good player (Wynn) and 1 player with 1 decent season among all those players in Corey Davis 2020. 0 Pro Bowls and 0 All pros between them though.

If we are comfortable staying in the 20s and 30s for the next few years, I'd be down with using picks as capital like the Rams have. Maybe not to the extreme they have, since 4 of their picks have been spent on QBs, but a strategic trade here or there would be great.

What you absolutely don't want to do is do what Miami did and trade your pick while you're still very much in a rebuild. Seattle, Chicago and Indy took calculated risks for the 2022 draft and that kind of backfired as well. So you need to be careful.