There was an interesting article quoting John Lynch about this draft. He was describing how shallow it is in the latter rounds, even suggested that some teams may try to trade away later picks. He said in the fall they place grades on college players they believe can be starters in the NFL, they had 83 graded but only 48 are in the draft. He also said they usually have grades on near 300 players on draft day but only have 170 on this years board.Trading up for a WR in a draft that is WR heavy is not very logical and would be especially out of character for the Colts and Chris Ballard. He's more likely to trade down, unless they have a shot at a very specifically targeted player. His assessment of RD1-graded players on their board implies to me that they are more likely to stay put or trade back.
Maybe they trade up for a Corner, but IMHO Corner isn't the greatest need of the defense; Edge Rush is. There are a couple outstanding edge rushers that could be on the board at or near 15. If CB thinks he could trade up to get one of them, I think that's the more likely trade.
There's a lot of talk about TE (Bowers), but again IMHO, that's the deepest position on the team already.
Two thoughts:There was an interesting article quoting John Lynch about this draft. He was describing how shallow it is in the latter rounds, even suggested that some teams may try to trade away later picks. He said in the fall they place grades on college players they believe can be starters in the NFL, they had 83 graded but only 48 are in the draft. He also said they usually have grades on near 300 players on draft day but only have 170 on this years board.
There’s a collective WTF rippling around the nfl.
Falcons pay Cousins a boatload cash and then draft an elite QB? What the actual ****?
5 quarterbacks in the top 10 is AWESOME for the Colts