What if TT trades down

So what. It is his job to make the decision.

ROTTT will trade down if the BPA or a target player is not there for him. My money is on him trading down in the 1st (if not completely out of the 1st) and stockpiling 2nd and 3rd round picks.

I completely understand the agony of sitting through Kiper and Boomer for 4 hours, only to find out your favorite team won’t pick for at least another 20, but I learned long ago to defer to the man who has established himself as one of the two or three best in the world at running an NFL draft vs. my intense study of Yahoo articles and YouTube highlight reels.

This has to be your most successful thread in years.

Certainly possible that he trades down depending on who's available and what offers he gets from other teams. If he trades down in the first I wouldn't be surprised to see him trade back up in one of the middle rounds to get a player he really wants that might not be there when he picks.

If he trades down everyone will go WTF and then when see the deal he's gotten and then the players he picks then they will say BRILLIANT!

With the way this QB class is shaking out, there very well could be a lot of competition for jumping back into the end of round 1. Jacksonville and the NYJ are supposedly hot after Nassib, Buffalo likes Barkley, the Browns apparently like Geno Smith. It could be very interesting.

As it stands now, the Packers have eight draft choices, including a compensatory pick in the 5th round due to the loss of Flynn and Wells, netting only Saturday in return.

Round 1, Pick 26, #26 overall
Round 2, Pick 25, #55 overall
Round 3, Pick 26, #88 overall
Round 4, Pick 25, #122 overall
Round 5, Pick 26, #159 overall
Round 5, Pick 34, #167 overall (Compensatory Selection)
Round 6, Pick 25, #193 overall
Round 7, Pick 26, #232 overall


I fully expect Thompson to trade out of the first round to accumulate additional picks. Arguably no megastars this year, but plenty of quality guys available through at least the first three rounds. TT's biggest problem this year may be finding a trading partner, as other teams are considering moving down as well (Cowboys and Jets for example). Maybe he should approach the '9ers---they've stockpiled 13 picks.

Of course, leave it to TT to trade UP this year, throwing everyone off. I think he's a bit of a contrarian, and uses the element of surprise as part of his draft day strategy.

TT is a contrarian investor. If everyone is selling their 1rst rounder, he will use that to his advantage and buy for cheap.

AKA... We move up.

Oh, bad memories off his last first round trade. The patriots raped him on that Matthews deal.

Where is the 'Uncle Ted trades up in early RD 3 to grab a punter choice'?

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Originally posted by IL_Pack_Fan:
I completely understand the agony of sitting through Kiper and Boomer for 4 hours,

And don't forget that agony of when the Packers pick is finally in BSPN will inevetiably go to a commercial ugh

Ian Rappaport has an article out this morning that teams high in the 2nd have been checking with teams in the 25-32 range for trading up, supposedly to get a QB. FWIW....

I always initially defer to the expertise of TT until I have the benefit of hindsight to make a different evaluation.

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I completely understand the agony of sitting through Kiper and Boomer for 4 hours, only to find out your favorite team won’t pick for at least another 20, but I learned long ago to defer to the man who has established himself as one of the two or three best in the world at running an NFL draft vs. my intense study of Yahoo articles and YouTube highlight reels.

I was actually thinking of the 2008 draft. I don't normally watch much of the draft; just tune in every half hour or so try to get a handle on how long until the Packers' next pick. I was annoyed at seeing the first round pick had been traded, but of course Thompson's first pick in 2008 wound up being Jordy Nelson, so he obviously knew what he was doing.

(Well, his second pick was Brian Brohm. I guess not everybody is perfect.)

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Originally posted by Grave Digger:
If he trades down everyone will go WTF and then when see the deal he's gotten and then the players he picks then they will say BRILLIANT!

With the way this QB class is shaking out, there very well could be a lot of competition for jumping back into the end of round 1. Jacksonville and the NYJ are supposedly hot after Nassib, Buffalo likes Barkley, the Browns apparently like Geno Smith. It could be very interesting.

I hope and pray TT trades out but the real question is can he trade out. Everybody at the end of the 1st round must be thinking the same thing (except the Vagines, watch them package their two first rounders to move up and draft Geno Smith).

That would be awesome, but alas, Spielman appears to have a clue. Of course it did take them two owners to finally figure out they need to have a head football guy.

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Originally posted by Herschel:
That would be awesome, but alas, Spielman appears to have a clue.

Please bring back the kick ass drafter.