I get it that we have a need at OT but that would piss me off. Huge overpay. Just last year it was considered a win for cleveland to even get a 5th rounder for Erving. Now if we’re considering a day 3 pick for him that’s another story.
Plus we’d only have him for 1 season, 2 if you pick up the 5th year option over drafting OT at 31 with at least 4 years team control at a much cheaper price.
Yeah. I was just offering a wilda$$ guess in response to the wilda$$ rumor that
@Ochmed Jones thinks he heard on BSPN.
Devil's advocate arguments (for this
extremely hypothetical trade)...
IF the Pats perceive their own LT situation as more desperate than even
we do, AND they have Erving graded out significantly higher than any of the in-house LT candidates
and higher than any of the OT prospects in this draft (at least in terms of being
an immediate stater), then I could see some kind of trade happening.
At the moment, KC doesn't pick until #54 in the 2nd round. Perhaps their deal is actually trading their 2019 1st-rounder for the Pats 2018 #31 and throwing Erving in to sweeten the deal?
Erving is under contract for $1.72M in 2018 (fully-guaranteed, but cheap). His 5th-year option salary would be $9.63M and I don't see that happening at all. OTOH, he's now "struck out" with two teams, so he may be amenable to signing a much, much cheaper extension at the moment.
So ...
The Pats trade the #31 for KC's 2019 1st-rounder and acquire Erving in the process at $1.72M for 2018. Then they
also draft an OT prospect somewhere along the line who they're confident they can develop into the 2019 starter (there may well not be much difference in potential between the OT prospects available at #31 and, later, at #63 - in the Pats view).
If Erving looks good (which is entirely possible given not only Scar's tutelage, but the potential difference in blocking schemes), then the Pats extend him, cheaply. If he's just barely adequate (or worse), maybe they extend him at backup money. If he faceplants, they're merely out the $1.72M "insurance premium".