Fencer

The reason the terms of the deal are like this is probably simple -- Atlanta squeezed for everything it could get, and Houston wasn't willing to actually give up its first round pick this year or next. So what they got is the most value they could extract.

As for a trade -- well, Detroit and Cleveland have both been burned with high choices spent on WRs. And both could benefit from getting a big pile of high picks. So Atlanta has the ammo to move up, potentially, whether to Cleveland's #2 or to a Detroit #3 after a Cleveland/Detroit swap in which Cleveland winds up with Quinn.

And yes, the ultimate reload would then be to trade down one more time to pick up the Pats' two firsts.

Alternatively, Houston might decide to recoup some of its count of high picks by trading down from #10.

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Cousin Fencer,
If someone offered us a five or six for our two #1's, would we do it? Would we go for CJ even though we have a few potential playmakers?
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Fencer

I'm guessing it's very unlikely. I can see it at a "physical freak" position -- Calvin Johnson (who won't slip even that far) or the second coming or Richard Seymour (except that the need is questionable given that Ty Warren can presumably be resigned). But otherwise? Very hard to envision.

Roy Williams turned out to not quite live up the game-changing hype at safety, and there's really no basis for thinking Landry et al. will. And probably he'd be the target, just based on needs-vs.-supply comparisons.