2021 NFL Draft Day!!

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Originally Posted by skinsnut

I disagree, I appreciate his research and analysis, especially on late round picks with lumited info. I get his conclusions. That is the rub. I didnt see any evidence of draft failures in year one, so I have a more fingers crossed view that they have a board based on good scouting info that ee dont have. But on the surface, some late moves are head scatchers, especially trading next years pick for a rookie long snapper.

WFT traded a 5th next year for a 6th and a 7th this year. That isn't a bad deal value-wise. Drafting a LS doesn't happen often, but it does happen when a team needs a LS, which WFT did. Apparently, the LS we got is considered by many folks to be the best one available. LS seems unimportant -- until you don't have a good one, then it's a disaster. Plus, NFL teams have a better feel for what other teams may be thinking than we do. If we didn't trade with PHI for picks 225 and 240, it would have been pick 246 before we picked again. RR and his group may have felt another team would have drafted Cheeseman between 225 and 246. Would we have been able to find and sign a quality LS had we not done this? Maybe. Maybe not. Not to mention, the trade enabled us to not only get a LS, but also the 2 DEs we got in round 7, which we may have really wanted. A lot goes into it that isn't common knowledge to us. In any case, it certainly isn't something to get upset about.