With the first three rounds of the NFL draft in the books I went back and evaluated each trade using the Fitzgerald-Spielberger trade value chart. Here is the breakdown of how every team fared in the first three rounds. The Worst Trades The worst trade of the draft goes to the Houston Texans who traded […]
The big trade today came down between the Cowboys and Texans where the Cowboys traded away a 5th and 6th round pick for WR Brandin Cooks of the Texans. As is usual with veteran player trades there are all kind of varying opinions on compensation so I just wanted to share a method that I […]
Prior to this offseason there had only been just two notable trades centered around the quarterback position dating back to 2015 – the Nick Foles/Sam Bradford deal between the Chip Kelly-run Eagles and the St. Louis Rams, and the Patriots sending Jimmy Garoppolo to San Francisco in favor of a 40-year-old Tom Brady. Broadening the […]
In an absolutely wild flurry of moves the Miami Dolphins triggered an early run of draft day trades that would normally be reserved for April. Miami traded down from number 3 to 12 and then jumped back up to number 6 in what essentially is a three way trade between the Dolphins, Eagles, and 49ers. […]
After months of asking to be traded the Jets finally pulled the trigger on trading away star safety Jamal Adams and boy did they get a haul for Adams from the Seahawks. Per Brian Costello the Jets will receive two first round draft picks, a third round draft pick and safety Bradley McDougald from Seattle. […]
Follow me on Twitter @PFF_Brad (Updated to reflect all trades through 4/28/2021) It is officially peak mock draft season. Everyone is hypothesizing where certain players will go and to which teams. And now that we’re less than one week away from the big day on April 23rd, it has become mock draft trade season. Everyone […]
Follow me on Twitter @BradOTC I recently posted a breakdown of each team’s Draft success from 2011-2014 based on the Fitzgerald-Spielberger/Top 5 APY metric (concept explained here with a table of Draft pick values). I wanted to expand on the research with an investigation of Pro Football Reference Approximate Value. First, below is the Top […]