1st Round QB trade up

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by popanot

The Eagles are an interesting trade partner, IMO, if they decide to re-sign Bradford. They don't have a #2, but have some extra picks in the later rounds. So maybe our #1 and #2 for #13 and one of their mid-round picks?? The Saints are rebuilding too, so perhaps they'd be willing to work a cost-friendly deal. If you look at it, the teams that own picks #10 thru #13 look primed for a trade-up scenario. It's just a matter of how the QB board falls and cost.

Trying to trade up from 22 into the Top 10 on Draft Day will be difficult, but I think trading up with the Eagles at 13 for our 1st and 2nd *before the draft* makes perfect sense. Once we are there, we can entertain a second trade to go get the QB we really want using next year's #1 or #2 as the bait or, if the cost is too high, we can use that spot to get the best OT on the board in order to beef up our porous OL or consider Ezekiel Elliot if he is still available.

There is also the possibility we can trade back down if we don't like our options and somebody else wants to overpay to move up. But Chip Kelly's gone and we need to see who in Philly is calling the shots.

We gave up two #2 for Schaub way back when. If we give up this year's #2 and next year's #2 to move up into position to draft the QB we want, that seems worth the sacrifice as long as the kid is the right one.

Out of Goff, Lynch and Wentz, Goff seems the guy with the smallest bust potential but also the guy with the smallest ceiling. I watched Lynch play against UH this year and he was just oozing with talent, had a sensational first half then seemed to disappear in the second half when his team needed him to make the big play. I really like him because I've seen the tools he brings and they are special but if he's not focused on/off the field, we can't have another Mallett.

Wentz, all I know is the same thing everyone else reads. Really risky to grab a QB from that level of competition but then you have guys like Flacco who rose from poor college competition to NFL stardom. I'd have to be really sold to invest three draft picks on something like that.

[nunusguy]

I think it's a zero-sum proposition when trading up in one big move or vs. two smaller, separate incremental moves, and I doubt that the Texans do it because it cost too much and I think the owner, no matter how much he wants a so called "franchise" QB is basically of a risk aversive mentality, i.e., he's unwilling to risk multiple first round picks on a single player.

[barrett]

We actually get something for our first round picks, so I would be against trading them away. But we waste rounds 2-4 like nobody in the league, so i'd love to give all of those away and spare us all the frustration.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by barrett

We actually get something for our first round picks, so I would be against trading them away. But we waste rounds 2-4 like nobody in the league, so i'd love to give all of those away and spare us all the frustration.

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