The Argument for Trading Up?

[papabear]

can't go with you on this one Keith...even though I see your point. Trading up in a weak draft is even more dangerous because you are likely to overvalue one of the supposed stars.

I'm not convinced that this draft is all that weak anyway. It doesn't have the star power at the top of the draft like the year we got Mario, but I think there's plenty of good football players in the first few rounds. It's always easy to look at past drafts and say that so and so would have been worth trading up for, but Looking at past drafts can only tell you so much because each player is different. I will almost always choose trading back and giving myself another role of the dice if that option is available. Sure, sometimes you might miss on a good pick, but I think your better off in the long run. At the end of the day it all comes down to how good a job you do scouting, and how much you trust those scouting reports.