Buzz: Is This The New Trade Chart?
In the past two years, there has been a growing sentiment among NFL cognoscenti that the trade chart that many fans & media are familiar with for making trades in the draft is antiquated. Dating back to Jimmy Johnson’s early days with the Cowboys, Johnson’s old chart has made it’s way around the NFL and fans. The biggest problem with it now is that it didn’t take into account the salary cap era, the explosive salaries of the league’s top picks and the trend toward Rookie Free Agents.
Last year, I toyed with the idea of creating a new one factoring the skyrocketing pricetags top team’s are paying for top picks, but I never came up with anything worthwhile. So what’s a rabid fanbase to do without the same criteria their beloved team is using to determine trades?
Well for those of you who are gearheaded enough into this to worry about such things, worry no more. ProFootballTalk posted up new version of the Trade Value Chart on their site. Honestly we think it doesn’t read so well, so have put up another version here.
You’ll notice the change in values from the past one in the first round. The points are pushed together, trying to approximate the real value of picks in that range at the top of the draft. PFT notes that “the first pick was worth 3,000; it’s now down to 2,000. However, the sixth pick is worth more under the new chart than it was under the prior version. Each remaining pick, from No. 7 to No. 32, is worth more as well, with the last pick in the round now worth 670, up from 590.”
5 Responses to Buzz: Is This The New Trade Chart?
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Going by the chart, moving up from Round 1, #2 to the top of the draft is just a high fourth round pick. That doesn’t sound realistic.
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Harlan Lachman says:
Thanks for the chart. Depending on low low one goes, it is clear we should pick up no less than a second or third for dropping down to the level I would consider (no deeper than pick 15) and should score multiple picks for most drops (since we won’t swap with the Pats and likely not with the 8th or 9th picks either).
I suspect if I am happy with this draft, there will be some miserable Jetsblog.com members and if I am miserable, some members will be pleased short term (I am too obnoxious to admit I could be wrong).
Harlan
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MB927LI says:
Lito sheppard is on the trading block, how about this scenario: him revis and rhodes would be pretty unstoppable together, we get there #19 ( Quentin Groves/ Derrick Harvey/ WR? ) and #49, gives us two more picks plus sheppard for our #6?, might be a good deal.
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And it would be hard to argue that this wouldn’t be a better situation then drafting a cb like DRC or McKelvin with our #6 when we could get sheppard and two more picks.
Is Florio a Jets fan?
#22- 920
#28-770
Total: 1690
#6- 1635
The Cowboys owe the Jets #144 too–