At what point would you Trade Up to get Jimmy Clausen?

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

GTripp, I don't follow your logic of taking Colt McCoy over Jimmy Clausen. At least the part about saving picks. It makes no difference unless you flat out believe that McCoy is plainly a better quarterback than Clausen. And if you do, then you're certainly in the minority on this one, which is fine too. But saving picks for the sake of "saving picks", yet drafting an inferior quarterback accomplishes nothing. You draft a quarterback with the intention that he'll someday lead your franchise and lead it well.

Either Colt McCoy is better than Clausen and deserves to be drafted higher or he isn't. Adding picks to the equation does nothing for me when you're drafting a quarterback. It's a make or break position.

Yes, Colt McCoy is a better quarterback than Clausen and deserves to be drafted higher.

But you can also play the perception of the league and leverage the fact that one is probably going to go before the other into getting the other later in the draft. Which is, the further Clausen falls, the less one would need to consider a trade up for McCoy, and could probably even start considering a trade down.

Again, if the target is Clausen, this point is moot. It's not relevant when McCoy will go if the idea is to draft Clausen. But if the idea is to draft McCoy, when Clausen goes is quite relevant, because if the market determines where McCoy will be drafted, Clausen's stock is a major determinant in setting that market.