Texans Potentially a Trade Partner with Patriots For Boutte?

[Uptown]

Aren't Dell and Collins both coming back off of injuries?

Yep. They also still have Noel & Hutch. It’s not as if they’re depleted. They should trade for someone like Jerry Jeudy. Those two rookies KC & Boston will (may already have) usurped him in Cleveland. Or maybe Rashod Bateman.

 

[imahobgoblin]

why would he not bring a comp pick back? I dont see the pats signing more free agents than they lose next off season.

Comp picks are not free. You don't just get them because someone leaves your team. A team must lose more qualifying free agents than it signs. Signing external free agents cancel out the picks. The Pats have done a great job fixing the starting roster. Now its time to fix depth, which is not great. You do that through the draft and FA. I would see and additional 3-4 O-line help alone being added. A Boutte FA would go toward the 2028 draft. We have no idea what that would even look like.

 

[Family]

A 3rd would be fantastic - dreams of more than that are unrealistic.

A 3rd would be a ridiculous high pay, but if I were the Patriots that's what I would want for a division foe.

I don't think anyone will offer a 3rd, but I've been surprised before.

 

[Family]

For comparison, two weeks ago the Texans could have had Diggs for more than 8 Million one year (they even had a positive history) and giving up nothing else.

Has the WR market changed so much since then that the Texans would have pay a third for Boutte.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

For comparison, two weeks ago the Texans could have had Diggs for more than 8 Million one year (they even had a positive history) and giving up nothing else.

Has the WR market changed so much since then that the Texans would have pay a third for Boutte.

They don't have to offer anything, and we don't have to trade him.
How does trading him to a divisional foe who has high aspirations for less than a 3rd make any sense?
I don't want to trade him at all.
Texans can have him next year for no picks when he's a FA.