2020 GMO Draft

@RTTRUTH and the Texans are on the clock

 

Here, but unsure where to go with this pick. Gimme a few

 

Texans select Albert Okwuegbunam, TE - Missouri

 

@Lyman and PIT OTC

 

The Pittsburgh Steelers select:

Trey Adam's, OT - Washington

 

Green Bay OTC
@Tim

 

FTR

INDIANAPOLIS is offering picks 160 + 193 for an on the clock pick, at least until we’re sniped.

 

The Green Bay Packers select: Javahn Ferguson, LB - New Mexico State

 

REDSKINS TRADE BLOCK UPDATE

RT MORGAN MOSES on the block (Cap hit $8.65m)

Looking for draft picks but will consider all reasonable offers, including futures...

 

BENGALS OTC

@matthewwillson29

 

Be back in about an hour...I'm not sure what happened to Matt. He just checked in a little bit ago.

 

I had to make a quick run to the bank, but I'm back now. I'll be around for a while if needed.

 

For anyone who actually cares about the oddball situation that led to OTC screwing up, here's the history of those draft picks...

For round five, the theoretical draft order without trades, forfeits, etc, would have been

5-7 = Dolphins
5-8 = Cardinals
5-9 = Jaguars



Start with 5-7 (153 overall). Remember all the fuss over Arizona taking Kyler Murray at #1 overall last year, right after they had traded up the year before to take Josh Rosen at #10 overall? They ended up trading Rosen to Miami for Miami's second round pick last year plus a 5th rounder the following year. We've now reached the following year, and this pick is the fifth rounder. So... Miami's original pick was traded to Arizona last April.

BUT... last October Miami traded Kenyan Drake to the Cardinals for a sixth round pick that could escalate to a fifth round pick if certain conditions were met. I don't know if those conditions were ever made public. It turns out that whatever they were, Drake met them. So the pick escalated to a fifth rounder, and... this is it. Miami's original pick made the boomerang trip to Phoenix and eventually right back to Miami.



Arizona's original pick was 5-8. They used it in the supplemental draft last July to take Jalen Thompson. Many sources skip over picks that are "forfeited" this way rather than noting how they were used, so you MIGHT see it listed as #154 overall, or it might be missing completely.



Jacksonville's original pick was 5-9. Last September, the Jaguars traded this pick to the Steelers for Joshua Dobbs. A week later, Pittsburgh traded it to Miami as part of the package for Minkah Fitzpatrick.



So... three picks in a row involved either Arizona or Miami, and Arizona's original pick was the middle one in this cookie. The other noteworthy item is that the supplemental draft came in between the Josh Rosen trade and the Kenyan Drake trade, so at that moment Arizona held both their own and Miami's fifth round picks.

That's one of two ways that OTC might have screwed this up. If they ran their programming right after the supplemental draft, they might have tagged "fifth round pick held by Arizona" to be deleted rather than "fifth round pick ASSIGNED TO Arizona". That would mark both picks to be forfeited this year.

Or they could have left Arizona's original pick out of the numbering and then had their system tag #154 as having been used in the supplemental draft, accidentally tagging Jacksonville's original pick as having been used. Either way, their system would end up missing one of the two Miami picks.



We do have it all sorted out now, but wow, OTC sure did drop the ball on that one.

 

In fairness to OTC - I believe he runs that site completely on his own.

Not a small measure given the intricacies of tracking contracts.

 

As usual Torgo, your attention to detail and thirst to connect the dots is second to none. Good read.

 

Indeed. I was just thinking about the forensics behind it, as I do a good bit of database analysis and auditing. If the error came through programming, those are two likely causes.

And to his credit, OTC has had far fewer errors than we saw from Spotrac a few years ago.

 

Thanks!

 

I do have a list for KC. I'll post their pick right after Cincinnati...

Then Seattle will be up...
@Tim