Trade options on draft day with QB needy teams

[BFritz21]

(02-21-2021, 12:23 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: It really is amazing what you can get by trading just a few spots if there's a team that desperately wants a QB with your spot.

The Jets traded up to the Colts 3rd spot to draft Sam Darnold.  They gave up the 6th pick, two 2nd round picks that year, and another 2nd round the following year.  So by moving down just three spots the Colts got a total of three 2nd round picks.

This is why I'm all for trading back, especially if we still stay in the top 10.  We have so many holes and that's just too much compensation to pass up.

The only problem is, going off a lot of the current mocks, Zach Wilson and Justin Fields are projected to go in front of us.  But if one of them is still there, and we can find the right trade partner?  Why the hell not?

Could you imagine if we, hypothetically, moved from 5 to 8 and still managed to get Kyle Pitts and picked up 3 extra 2nd round picks?

I forget when it was (might have been last year), but a team traded up one spot because another team was offering to move to the spot in front of them to take the player they wanted. They might have been bluffing (which would be legendary) or the team that traded just did it out of fear that someone else would trade, but it happens.  

I thought about the possibility of a Qb needy team trading up but I don't know if it would be worth it to miss out on Sewel because we need to protect Burrow above all else.  Then again, a team could throw in a quality veteran tackle in the trade or enough picks to make it worth it because, like you said, we do have lots of holes to fill.