2021 NFL Draft: Day 1

[Douglar]

Two first round picks, meaning TY and 2022.

Pretty lopsided price for a jump relatively small, but that all seems to go out the window when QBs are involved.

Using the standard draft value points, Going from 20 to 11 should cost 400 points.

2022 1st ~= 1000 points
2022 4th ~=60 points
2021 #164 = 24 points

So they gave up a lot, yes. Maybe they had to. There could have been a bidding war.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Using the standard draft value points, Going from 20 to 11 should cost 400 points.

2022 1st ~= 1000 points
2022 4th ~=60 points
2021 #164 = 24 points

So they gave up a lot, yes. Maybe they had to. There could have been a bidding war.

Future picks are widely regarded as worth a round less than current picks, so you should be valuing the 2022 first somewhere between 580 and 270 if we're going by this chart: https://www.drafttek.com/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart.asp

But, as you mentioned, it's grossly out of date.

I like the deal for both teams.

To shit on both teams, I think the Giants could've gotten more--the Bears front office and coaching staff may have had their jobs on the line, and been willing to do whatever it took to get a QB. To the Bears, there's a reason Justin Fields fell, and you just hitched your last-ditch effort to a guy with serious question marks.

(If I have to pick a winner, it's the Bears--getting Justin Fields is more than that franchise ever could've hoped for heading into the night, and if you told anyone it only cost them a future first and a couple later round picks to move up for him, they'd be over the moon)

 

[sportscoach]

If we somehow came away with Terrace Marshall and Quinn Meinerz I’d be pretty excited

That was my plan in the mock draft to get both of those guys for the Packers lol

 

[Hurl Bruce]

Tell me you wouldn't give Mac Jones with Trevor's hair a second or third look at the bar towards closing time.

 

[FiveThous]

Where does this fall on the "gets us" meter?

 

[FiveThous]

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Tell me you wouldn't give Mac Jones with Trevor's hair a second or third look at the bar towards closing time.

Cute couple.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

 

[NorthCoastBias]

This is nothing more than in-house content creation by the networks so they have more things to discuss tonight. All about drawing in the viewers and keeping them there.

Nailed it.

 

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

Nailed it.

People tuned into the league have known about the Rodgers stuff for a while, no doubt--apparently Packers execs have had multiple flights out to Rodgers's home in NorCal to try and talk him into returning.

But, to me, this Tweet reads "Hey, if you want to keep getting info from this camp, you should take the heat off us and tell everyone we weren't your source."

 

[NorthCoastBias]

People tuned into the league have known about the Rodgers stuff for a while, no doubt--apparently Packers execs have had multiple flights out to Rodgers's home in NorCal to try and talk him into returning.

But, to me, this Tweet reads "Hey, if you want to keep getting info from this camp, you should take the heat off us and tell everyone we weren't your source."

I guess my point is that Schefter basically admitted to sitting on his Rodgers info until draft day to enhance ESPN's coverage that evening.

 

[I'mWithDan]

I guess my point is that Schefter basically admitted to sitting on his Rodgers info until draft day to enhance ESPN's coverage that evening.

I think this is probably what happened......but I would imagine there are many other plausible scenarios as well, that have to do with a team(s) kind of sniffing around on Rodgers.

Schefter talks to everyone........and if someone within the Niners org, for example, was like "We called Green Bay and asked about Rodgers, they listened but said no...". At that point, Schefter might go up the chain and say "I don't have this from Rodgers camp but there is enough cumulative info to believe Rodgers may want out. A team has already inquired about him, Green Bay didn't immediately hang up, there is a good chance someone reports on this today." At that point, ESPN probably just wants to go with it, relative to owning the draft coverage and the type of story it would be.

I don't know if that is what happened.......but I think there is a good chance something like that materialized. Where Schefter heard things from a few different teams or sources throughout the off-season and then as the draft approached, a team that was potentially a preferred destination made a more official inquiry and it was something he got intel on and then broke out of necessity.