BakoSaint

Unless we are finding the next Patrick Maholmes etc, I hope we do not trade up.

There is an unfortunate narrative that we may:

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...n-first-round/

I think this narrative is flawed. Claiming we can afford to get less players because we have no holes is a joke. We lost one starting CB and have major legal troubles for the other. Our #1 receiver is recovering from injuries that sometimes have setbacks and our #2 receiver left in free agency so we are depending on TreQuiet Smith to make noise. We also let our top receiving tight end go, and I am not sure we have 1000 careeer receiving yards on the roster at the TE position. We also lost our sack leader. Our defense was great with Kwon Alexander but he got hurt, and we let his backup Mr Glass walk, so I don't know what world we are set at linebacker. So clearly we have holes on the roster.

If we want to trade our 6th and 7th round picks to move up in the 4th round thats fine, but to say we have no room on the roster for 3rd and 4th round picks is a lie. Also even if we didn't have any holes on the roster, which we obviously do, that would only free up trading this years picks. We definitely have holes on the roster for 2022, considering tons of people are not under contract or will be a year older, such as no QB under contract. But a big move would require trading next years picks too, which I really hope we don't do, as we have to give those away at 40% discount.

Also, I will tell you one player a good draft pick could displace: Marcus Davenport who we traded up for, is always injured, and plays mediocre. I will also tell you a player who was displaced by a 3rd round pick in the past: Mark Ingram, who we traded up for in the 1st round. So if history tells us anything, its that if we trade up in the 1st round because we don't have any starters who could be displaced by a rookie, we will solve that problem by overpaying for a starter who can be displaced for a rookie.

Lets be the bank this year. Collect the interest don't pay it. If we don't have holes, great, answer the calls of teams looking to trade up to our picks, take their future picks, and then we will have lots of picks in 2022 and 2023 when we will definitely have holes. If our front office can't wait until the end of the first round to pick, they should talk to their doctor about appropriate medications. Patience is a virtue and nobody except a QB is worth trading up, as we see with the Falcons trying to pawn off Julio now while never getting a ring.