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If his market craters and it only costs like $3-5 million per year, sure. Otherwise no.

I like the idea but pretty much hate the mock. and I also totally disagree that Beane views this as the year to trade down. I don’t think there will ever be a year he wants to trade down. if anything, that quote of his means he wants to trade up into the 2nd/3rd round using the extra day 3 picks.

Would love for this to be true but it means nothing.

Give your Clowney to us please.

I imagine Jones would be and I think that would be a good pick (if Beane is genuinely open to taking a tackle). The other two seem like reaches to me based solely on what I've read (haven't watched them at all).

No harm in giving anybody a workout. Skeptical he'd be worth a roster spot though.

Hard to imagine they'd move Dillard at this point, but getting him and Jeffery would definitely be something that would interest me very much.

I like Jefferson a lot, but if there's a concern with him, IMO it's that he might ultimately settle in as just being a big slot WR which probably wouldn't be good value in the 1st round. He has all the physical tools to transition into being a wideout, but he hasn't really shown that much on film yet and that always makes me a little nervous when we're talking about a 1st round pick. I think he's worth considering for sure though. As for other positions, the main needs IMO are (not necessarily in order): WR Edge O-Line (which spot depends on what they want to do with Ford/Spain) CB2 Safety Rotational DT Backup RB and or 3rd down back LB (though they'll probably just re-sign Milano and basically check this box off) My guess is that we address edge prior to the draft. I'm also not particularly high on any of the prospects after Chase Young, but some believe there will be worthy choices at 22. There likely won't be O-Line guys worth taking where we are. CB and safety are both solid options IMO. I think there will probably be 1 or 2 corners that you can justify at #22 and probably 2 or 3 safeties. The other 3 needs aren't important enough IMO to address in the 1st round unless they plan to let Milano walk. So ultimately, my guess is WR, DB, or a disappointing edge pick.

Seems like Gibson is generally considered a 3rd-4th round prospect. It would be pretty shocking to see him get taken in the 1st as you mentioned in the OP. Dugger I think is a realistic option. He could end up being available to us in the 2nd round but his all-around skillset is something I'm sure McDermott would love to have. There will be higher rated safety prospects on the board when we pick, though again, I think Dugger's all-around skillset might place him higher on our board than others like Delpit for example.

Sanders is good in the slot but he's good out wide too. He's generally been a guy that moves around the formations a lot; pretty ideal fit for what Daboll is looking for honestly (just obviously on the older side).

Jefferson's contested catch % this past season was the highest in the entire draft class, going 12/13. If we focus on just the Day 1-2 WRs (rough list of them), their true catch rates last year were (making the calculation based on PFF's drop numbers here): Ruggs: 96.0% Lamb: 93.0% Jefferson: 92.0% Shenault: 91.5% Jeudy: 91.3% Pittman: 90.9% Claypool: 90.5% Aiyuk: 88.8% Mims: 87.7% Higgins: 84.6% Reagor: 79.9% Hamler: 78.9% Peoples-Jones: 78.4% Of course this can be greatly influenced by how deep the targets are; deeper targets are generally more difficult to catch, and Jefferson's average depth of target was the lowest among those players (the only player in single digits). Basically all the players with high average depth of targets are at the bottom of the list in terms of true catch % and vice versa. The exceptions are Lamb (high in both categories), Aiyuk (low in both categories), and Ruggs (average ADoT and the highest true catch %)

It'd be fine because once you acquire him, you can always cut him if you ever need the cap space. Having said that, he's the 6th highest paid RB in the league and I think Singletary is better than him. I would rather be seeking a WR or pass rusher in a trade.

I think he holds the team back and don't think he was anything more than a game manager in the Super Bowl. Looks like we simply disagree on him as a player and that's fine. I'm sure other teams agree with you and that's what I would be counting on if I were in SF's shoes.

Boston media guy just to give you an idea of the angle their spinning it with: Big difference between the two is that moving Jimmy frees up a ton of cap space. Moving Foles does not.

It's not 30+ million. It's like $26-27 million. Someone would do it for a 1st or 2nd round pick IMO. But it would be a mistake.

Peter King was talking about it this week as having both Brady and Jimmy on the roster this season but that doesn't make any sense to me.

It all boils down to what they think of Jimmy. If I were in their shoes, I would be making my contingency plans this offseason anyways; I would be looking to move Jimmy a year from now so I would want to bring in a rookie this year that can take over in the future. Trading Jimmy now for assets and then significantly upgrading (IMO) to Brady makes sense to me too, even moreso if they end up bringing a young QB in to sit behind Brady for a year or two. The bigger question is whether or not the Jimmy to NE part makes sense, which would depend on what Belichick wants to do there. But at any rate, I'm sure SF could find someone else that would trade assets for Jimmy and that's a win to me as I think he's in the no man's land of QBs. Good enough to get a big contract but bad enough to kill your team's chances because of your contract.

I think that's partially just because of how special he is too. He absolutely embarrassed CBs that tried to press him at the line and teams quickly learned not to try it; they had a much better chance if they just played off coverage. He's just a filthy player; I would be very surprised if he doesn't become a Pro Bowl caliber WR (unless he becomes injury-prone). He's so much more skilled than Goodwin it's not a comparison at all. Ruggs is a good all-around WR who happens to be blessed with incredible athleticism. Goodwin is a fast guy that can catch sometimes.

I don't think he's any worse than Lamb in this regard honestly and at least from the games I watched, he dealt with press coverage more often than Lamb or Jeudy did. Jeudy was incredible against press coverage though, which is one of the main reasons he's my #1 WR. I would tend to go with Ruggs > Lamb for #2.

Unless Jeudy slides a lot, a 1, 2, and 5 probably won't get us high enough. It would probably cost a 1, 2, and 3 to get up to 10. Turn the 2 into a future 2 instead and now you're probably talking around 14ish. 1, 2, and 5 might get you up around 15 if you get lucky but I doubt it and I doubt Jeudy is available there anyways. Edit: I think the trade charts would say 1, 2, and 5 is enough, but in reality, I don't think that would be the case. Pittsburgh moved from 20 to 10 last year with their 1, 2, and 3 for example.

FWIW, Matthew Fairburn says it sounds like extensions for White, Dawkins, and Milano are a matter of when, not if and that McBeane view those three as long-term core players.

I promise you Clemson has been scouted plenty.

Which experts are you referring to? Just at a quick glance, McShay, Jeremiah, and Matt Miller all do not have him in the first round. I don't doubt that there's a mock out there that does, but I haven't seen one yet.

Foles + 20 for 22 is possible. The 9th pick is not. To move from 22 to 9 would cost roughly #22, plus a 2nd round pick, plus a 3rd round pick, maybe more. There's no way they view gaining like $3 million in cap space as being worth all of that.

I just can't imagine the Jaguars would move down from #9 to #22 just for a couple million dollars in cap space. I think people have gone way off the deep end regarding all these ideas of teams attaching high value draft picks to players to move them.