The âproblemâ is that those picks come a year later.
I know at least one of the value charts also listed values for ânext yearâs draftâ and they were greatly reduced. I donât know that teams view it that way, but I always thought that during the draft, we should trade perhaps our 4th-rounder (for a team looking to move up for a specific player) for next years 2nd-rounderâŠand then do that every year. You take the hit (lose the 4th-round pick) in the first year, but after that you have turned your 4th-rounder into a 2nd-rounder in each yearâs draft. [Of course, this assumes you can find the needed trade partner each yearâŠwhich is not a given. Those ânext yearâ (or even the year after that) draft picks can also be accumulated through trades of draft picks and/or players.].
We should try to get our trade partners to throw in a pick in a future draft. Say, instead of a 2nd and a 5th this year for Tee, make it a 2nd this year and a 3rd next year. It would hurt a bit for this year, but pay off next year.
New England Cheatriots recently went through a string of drafts where they seemed to always have one or two extra picks in early rounds that were âearnedâ by trade a year or two before.
Letâs take advantage of the lower value associated with future year draft picks.
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