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We forfeit the highest pick we have. If we trade for a higher pick we lose that one.We forfeit our pick, not a pick we traded for.
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I remember reading recently that there is language in the penalty handed down by goodell that states the pats Can't trade for a 1st round pick in the up-coming draft.
The Pats only have one 1st round pick. If they get any other 1st round pick it would have to be someone else's.
Not to speak for Miguel, but I believe when the idea of trading for someone else's pick was raised before, he said the cap would prevent the Pats from doing that.
Future years should be in play though.
Titans have Mariota.
I must really be doing a bad job of explaining this because I'm not saying they can trade for higher first round pick, I am saying that they can make a deal where another team picks a player they want and then they trade Garrapolo for that player. So they cannot trade for the eighth pick overall but they could have the team with that pick take the player they want and then trade Garrapolo for that player. I would find it odd if the league created a situation where teams could never do that.
The other 30 would shun the owner who did that with the Pats.
Oh, the ballsy owner could not care less?
My bad.
Even if it is a loophole and the Pats were able to acquire a player picked by another team, I think the Pats would still not have the cap space to sign the player since the rookie cap is based on the draft picks a team has.
Even if it is a loophole and the Pats were able to acquire a player picked by another team, I think the Pats would still not have the cap space to sign the player since the rookie cap is based on the draft picks a team has.
Slightly more accurately, it's based on the draft picks a team uses. This is why trading for a drafted rookie is rare. Not impossible, but rare.
So, the issue with Ivan's suggestion is not that it is absolutely impossible, but that it would cost the Patriots several of their late-round drafted rookies, because they simply wouldn't be able to afford them in the rookie cap.