03-09-2021, 01:04 PM
(03-09-2021, 12:20 PM)Whatever Wrote: #5 is worth 1700 per the trade value chart. The picks you got are worth 1485. The difference is basically us being shorted a 3rd rounder. Trades rarely work out even, but there's a big difference between being shorted the equivalent of a 6th and being shorted a 3rd.
Eichenberg is ranked 42nd on average. If you took him at 37, I don't think anyone would blink. That's a huge reach in the first. Not to mention, you're asking him to switch sides and positions.
It's hard enough for a rookie to come and do well just learning one position, let alone basically learning two to do multiple looks with him. And we need an Edge and the kid only has one year of experience at the position.
Dude has torn 2 ACL's and has also had a season ending ankle injury. He's 6'6" and anything that winds up affecting his knee bend will have a big impact on leverage. Plus, trench guys usually don't get back to full strength until the season after they're cleared. C already has a steep learning curve and he will be behind It after year one and playing catch up. And that's if he stays healthy. Haven't we learned our lesson by burning premium picks on injured guys that are never able to catch up?
Find me another team in that range who needs a QB and has the ammo in early draft picks to get it done.
You are acting like these preseason rankings are set in stone. They are never spot on. The guy is almost unanimously viewed as a 1st or early 2nd. Him going in the first would shock no one.
He is coming in playing behind Lawson and Hubbard. And yes he is young and played like a demon during that one year. So he will only get better with experience.
Yep he is a gamble. Just like everyone else in the draft. I have no problem taking a gamble on the mammoth Rimington Award winner first team All American who was the best interior offensive linemen in college football last year. If he shakes the injury bug we hit on a top tier C or G.
