Listening to PFW from Wednesday, there was talk, again, about the merit in trading down, and the talent you miss out on by doing so.
As such, I went back to the previous 4 drafts, and looked at what would be the difference in talent on the roster had we simply, in every round, taken a player at our designated drafting position.
Of course, you can't say for sure who we would have taken had we not traded, so, for the benefit of simply comparing the talent levels, I take the player who was actually selected in our spot (by our trading partner) as the player we would have taken.
The question is, do you think, on average, the players we ended up with (as a result of extensive trading) are better or worse - from a pure talent perspective - than the ones who were taken in our designated spots?
Notes
1. I have omitted players who we actually selected in our designated spots, as we're only interested in the differences in rosters as a result of trading.
2. Had we not traded, we'd still have Matt Cassel and Richard Seymour, but would not have extra 2012 1st and 2nd round picks. Again, for simplicity, I assume this cancels out.
3. There are other small mistakes due to very low round trades (the likes of Ellis Hobbs and Greg Lewis for example), but I didn't want to keep track of all those players.
4. I include the 2007 trades which resulted in us ultimately getting Mayo in 2008.
Players we would not have (have had), if we didn't trade
Players we would have, if we didn't trade
As such, I went back to the previous 4 drafts, and looked at what would be the difference in talent on the roster had we simply, in every round, taken a player at our designated drafting position.
Of course, you can't say for sure who we would have taken had we not traded, so, for the benefit of simply comparing the talent levels, I take the player who was actually selected in our spot (by our trading partner) as the player we would have taken.
The question is, do you think, on average, the players we ended up with (as a result of extensive trading) are better or worse - from a pure talent perspective - than the ones who were taken in our designated spots?
Notes
1. I have omitted players who we actually selected in our designated spots, as we're only interested in the differences in rosters as a result of trading.
2. Had we not traded, we'd still have Matt Cassel and Richard Seymour, but would not have extra 2012 1st and 2nd round picks. Again, for simplicity, I assume this cancels out.
3. There are other small mistakes due to very low round trades (the likes of Ellis Hobbs and Greg Lewis for example), but I didn't want to keep track of all those players.
4. I include the 2007 trades which resulted in us ultimately getting Mayo in 2008.
Players we would not have (have had), if we didn't trade
Code:
2007 Moss
2008 Mayo
Crable
Slater
2009 Chung
Brace
Butler
Tate
Ohrnberger
Ingram
Edelman
2010 McCourty
Gronkowski
Spikes
Price
Hernandez
Mesko
Welch
2011 Solder
Dowling
Vereen
Ridley
Mallett
Cannon
Carter
Williams
Vets
Burgess
Greg Lewis
Players we would have, if we didn't trade
Code:
2007 Joe Staley
2008 Carl Nicks
Cory Boyd
2009 Michael Oher
Jared Cook
Louis Murphy
Fenuki Tupou
Stryker Sulak
2010 Demaryius Thomas
Colt McCoy
A J Edds
Austen Lane
Travis Goethel
Erik Cook
2011 Mark Ingram
Brandon Harris
Joseph Barksdale
Taiwan Jones
Brian Rolle
Cliff Matthews
Vets
Laurence Maroney
Le Kevin Smith
Ellis Hobbs
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