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Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

trading down is another option, as i doubt suh will even be available. alot can change between now and the draft, but he's definitely a top 3 pick and i dont think we'll be picking that high anyways.

I wouldn't count on Samuels coming back, but if he did, id plug him in at RT, relegate Heyer to a backup, start Levi Jones at LT, and draft his replacement in the 2nd round.

If we're picking in the top 5-8 and there's not a complete stud of a player that falls to us (like orakpo this year), then i agree we should try like hell to trade down. with so many juniors expected to declare for the draft in 2010, this draft should be especially deep at pretty much every position. if theres no stud, "can't miss" prospects, i'd absolutely love to trade down out of the 1st round entirely, and pick up as many 2nd rounders as we can.

while i agree it would be great to trade down the chances of that happening are slim to none, if we have a top ten pick which we most likly will have. no one will want to trade down to pick up that cost with this most likely being the last year with out a rookie wage scale.

we could however trade down our second pick for a later second and a 5th which would be nice since we don't have a third