What is RG3 worth to us?

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

It's not like though that the new CBA has totally changed the value of a first round pick. The second overall player is going to be a lot more affordable than he was two years ago, but if teams thought before that players at the top of the draft weren't worth the money, they would have passed on those picks to save dough.

I think the surplus value of the no. 2 pick is a lot higher than it was two years ago, but that's also the case for the no. 4 and no. 6 and no. 9 and no. 11 picks as well. So the incentive to trade multiple (or future) first rounders for a high pick might actually be lower than it was two years ago, even if the picks are still more valuable.

I'm not sold on the fact that the second pick is destined to be a glorified RGIII auction, and I'm basing that on recent history. I think it becomes an auction if the Rams make it one, but setting a high asking price while you really are interested in Justin Blackmon just makes you like every other team that has held the no. 2 overall pick in the last ten drafts. Until the Rams come out and seriously considering drafting RGIII, they're just any other team with the second overall pick, and not a likely destination for RG3.

Good points, I would expect the rams to ask for a lot simply because they're in a position to. I can easily see us getting into the mix, at least trying to work out a deal even if in the end the price is deemed too high. I'm also assumng that RGIII stock continues to rise to the point that many rank him as the #2 prospect overall, not just #2 QB. Don't know how much personel power Fisher has w/the rams, but I would bet that he'd love to land a bunch of good picks at the expense of the #2.