NFL Draft 2015: 8 instant reactions
By Will Osgood
Lack of First-Round trades wasn’t a big deal
It’s not that it’s cool to trade draft picks, like the hot thing to do. It’s cool in the sense that it’s okay to trade picks, just not in the first-round. In this draft, where there were so few players who projected as Pro Bowl, or potential Hall of Fame type guys, first-round picks and thus a shot at one of them, were not the sort of thing anyone wanted to give up.
We saw how staunchly firm the Tennessee Titans held to No. 2 despite probably not being the best fit for Marcus Mariota. There were other rumblings about teams moving around in the first-round but most of them never came to fruition.
And the two teams who did move up, the San Diego Chargers from 17 to 15 and the Denver Broncos from 28 to 23, paid quite a price to move up two and five spots respectively, and in the process were ridiculed by most experts for the high price.
But once we left the first-round, trades suddenly started happening about once every eight picks, or at least it seemed that way. Teams moved up for players they liked, while Bill Belichick let them do that and acquired more picks in the process just like Evil Bill always does.
And Dave Gettleman, the Carolina Panthers’ general manager, traded up twice to get players he liked first in the second-round and then in the fourth. He started the draft with eight picks and ended with just five. And lied in the process.
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