Eagles 1(18) Quinyon Mitchell, CB - Toledo 3(4) Jonah Elliss, EDGE - Utah 3(5) Devontez Walker, WR - North Carolina 4(3) 4(20) 5(26) 5(36) 5(37) 6(34) 7(33) Jaguars 1(28) Adonai Mitchell, WR - Texas 2(16) Ennis Rakestraw Jr., CB - Missouri 2(28) Cooper Beebe, OG - Kansas State 3(32) 4(9) 4(14) 4(16) 5(18) 6(36) 7(16)
Seahawks need at least one, preferably 2 starters for OL, depth for the defensive front seven, but... ... they don't have a second round pick. My solution: traded from #16 to #36, picking up OL Chris Paul, LB Mykal Walker and early third round pick #67. Drafted OT Jordan Morgan at #36 and EDGE Chris Braswell at #67. One pick, four needs filled.
I didn't even notice I had B2B picks until I posted I was in the hole. I thought they were separated. lol
@gidion72 - you don't have pick number 4.20 like last year, but as fate would have it, you have the 4:20 (Eastern) time slot on 4/20. Saints (@MaroonTyphoon ) have the 7:20 Eastern / 4:20 Pacific time slot that day in case you want to work a trade.
Priorities! (For those just joining us this year, we got off to a late start last year and finally lit this draft at 4:20 pm on 4/20. We had to use short time slots to roll it all in, but for whatever reason everyone seemed pretty mellow about it...)
Ok, wait… what does Brandon Cook’s and Stephon Diggs have to do with the Deshaun Watson trade? This post is a little misleading.
Hectic morning here guys.. So sorry. Anyone looking to move up to 72? I'll give it about 20 then make my pick if zero offers.
It's the full chain of trades beginning with trading Watson. Diggs is absolutely part of the bounty. Houston got Diggs in exchange for the future 2nd rounder that they got from Minnesota, which they got by trading the Vikings that 2024 first rounder from Cleveland in the Watson trade. Not everything came 100% from the Watson trade, and I noted that - mostly by saying they "bumped up" to take a player rather than only listing the player. Brandin Cooks is one of the other "costs" - giving him up gave Houston the two picks that became roughly 1/3 of the trade price for Tank Dell and 1/2 the price for Xavier Hutchinson. I might have also included the Bradley Roby trade and listed Roby as part of the "costs". At the start of the 2021 season, they passed Roby over to New Orleans for a third rounder in 2022 and a conditional pick in 2023. Those turned out to be the #80 (which was the pick they "bumped up" to 75 to take Christian Harris) and the #188 in 2023, which was one of the late rounders they used to trade up in the third last year to take Juice Scruggs. The other pick they gave up in that deal originally from trading their sixth rounder to Tampa, getting Shaq Mason plus the pick they threw in to trade up for Scruggs. I chose to leave all that out to make it the "short version" and simplify things, but it could easily be changed to add Roby and the 2023 6th to the costs, include Shaq Mason and Juice Scruggs in the bounty, and make Christian Harris an outright part of the bounty rather than saying they "bumped up" to get him. It was much cleaner just to say they bumped up from 80 to take Harris, making the #80 part of the total cost. Another one I could have included but simply hadn't found yet was that the pick #207 that they "bumped up" to take Thomas Booker was the pick they got for trading Shaq Lawson to the Jets. That makes the Booker pick (the one true failure of the whole mess) even more of a nothing-for-nothing kind of situation. The Jets released Lawson after just one season the same way Houston released Booker after just one season. So if you prefer, you could add Lawson to the "costs" and take out the 230, making Booker an outright part of the bounty rather than "bumped up". I also simplified it wherever I could by lining up extra picks they got with extra picks they traded, such as saying the 203 this year bumped up to the 188. They gave up the 203 (to Cleveland as the other throw-in pick in the Watson trade) and ended up getting back the 188 later on in the chain. I should switch the 188 and 189 there, because they actually did get the 188 directly from Minnesota in the same trade where they gave up the 232. So it would make more sense to say they bumped the 232 to 188 and the 203 to 189. But... it's a huge mess regardless, you get the general idea (they took everything from the Watson trade and traded it all again and again and again), and I don't think anyone would even want to read a longer breakout of every single component of the chain anyway. Once upon a time I did a similar expanded tree of what Cleveland did with all the picks from the Julio Jones trade. I could find that and post it again if you like, but it was kinda depressing for Browns fans. It's a stark contrast to this one, with Cleveland coming up bust after bust after bust.
Someone text me when the Falcons are up. My brother and I are both together doing some work today and we won't know how muchdown time we'll have. It can be once every other or we can get on our phones every 5 minutes lol.
With pick 72, the NY Jets select OG Dominick Puni Several OL players here worthy of 72, but Puni leads the way with his versatility, smarts and upside. Can be swing tackle, or G so sorry for taking so long. Really wanted to move back and still get Puni, but he's the guy. (ctrl+f Puni on evaluation pages brings up hundreds of "punishment" learned quickly to use "dominick") Lions OTC @Jace Sweet
