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Originally Posted by WaldSkins
Maybe every year he will trade next years picks to select players in this years draft. If he does it every year, we really wouldnt be losing anything.
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Actually Waldskins - from what I understand if you trade picks in later years for the current draft you lose value - for example if you wanted another teams 1st round pick this year and were willing to trade future picks - the way the point system works would not be 1 for 1, but rather the team trading the future pick (in this case the Skins) would have to give up more picks to complete the deal (like a 1st and a 4th). Here is a link and qoute to what I am referring to:
NFL Draft - NFL draft preview and analysis from Pro Football Weekly
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"In instances where next year’s draft picks are traded, teams generally divide the league into quadrants, ranking how they expect a team to finish next year. If the Chargers were to deal with the Eagles, who are expected by many to finish in the top eight next year after an active offseason, San Diego could expect a 2005 first-round pick belonging to Philadelphia to be worth 680-800 points. If the Chargers were considering a trade with the 49ers, who are expected to finish in the bottom eight after depleting their roster of much of its veteran talent to better position the team financially for the future, they could expect to receive value ranging from 1,400 to 3,000 points. However, because there is so much parity in the league and it's difficult to predict where a club will finish, some teams generally expect to receive about 1,000 points in exchange for a future first-round pick from a bad team and 750 from a contender. Also, in any trade involving draft choices in both the current year and a future year, most teams will value, say, a fourth-round pick in the current draft as being worth a third-rounder in next year's draft — the team receiving the future pick moving up a round in return for having to wait an extra year to exercise its pick.
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So basically using this methodolgy if the Skins keep trading future picks they are mortgaging their future even more....