Take Stroud - Trade Back Into First Round for Jaxon Smith-Njigba?

[tukafan21]

I'm not a fan of giving up so much to ge too #1 and have no starting WRs on the roster for him to throw to.  We'll have to get at least 2 players better than TMJ or Lavish for him, so if we take Stroud, I think we should find a way to get back into the middle of the first to take his college teammate and hope it works like for the Bengals with Burrow/Chase.

Think our 2025 First plus some more could get us into the middle of the round to get him, and that would be totally worth giving up a future first in that type of situation I think.

[Eric4280]

No. Stop mortgaging more future capital. We’re already behind the 8 ball with future picks. If this doesn’t work , we’re screwed for the next three years. Just stay where you are and take Flowers or Downs or Hyatt and see if Rice or someone falls to our third. Or even Boutte late third. Down year but has WR one upside and showed the pedigree before this year.

[Ricky Spanish]

2025 is two years out, I doubt a team would be willing to take that as compensation.

We'd have to give up our 2nd this year and next, plus some other picks to do it. Doesn't make sense to me. A trade up into the end of the first, maybe, but again, we've already payed a steep price paying for next year's draft.

[CamWhoaaCam]

F them picks!

 

Nah we need to chill on trading more picks to move back up.

 

We have a sh!t ton of capspace next year. We can get talent in FA.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, Ricky Spanish said:

2025 is two years out, I doubt a team would be willing to take that as compensation.

Likely only as part of a larger deal that we probably don't need to be making 

[Tbe]

Scott is going to trade down for more picks.

[toldozer]

I really think we trade down to 2 on draft night and pick up a pick. Really hoping we love both guys and Texans are set on one guy

[jfra78]

Stay put and pick up Kincaid or Washington.

[Hoenheim]

There's some decent free agent options you don't have to draft a rockstar R1 WR. You can use the 2nd or 3rd to get a decent one to pair with TMJ. And maybe over pay one of the top FA WRs to be the #1 option. 

[Jackie Lee]

1 minute ago, Hoenheim said:

There's some decent free agent options you don't have to draft a rockstar R1 WR. You can use the 2nd or 3rd to get a decent one to pair with TMJ. And maybe over pay one of the top FA WRs to be the #1 option. 

Yeah underrated list. I'm more into getting the best TE we can and spreading the ball out. Get Bozeman signed, get Foreman or Jamaal Williams at RB and we're good

[Hoenheim]

2 minutes ago, Jackie Lee said:

Yeah underrated list. I'm more into getting the best TE we can and spreading the ball out. Get Bozeman signed, get Foreman or Jamaal Williams at RB and we're good

They're going to get someone in free agency they're not going to sit on their hands with two unknowns at WR imo. 

Even if it's just a sort of solid WR2 ish dude on a reasonable contract. They could really use any consistent chain mover bc I have no idea how reliable TMJ, draft pick, or Shi Smith will be (last season seems to point to him likely being unreliable barring some unexpected rebirth)

[Luciu5]

36 minutes ago, toldozer said:

I really think we trade down to 2 on draft night and pick up a pick. Really hoping we love both guys and Texans are set on one guy

I think trading down to 3 is more likely. If the Cards think we'll get a massive haul that would be difficult to refuse from someone to move up for Anderson or potentially Carter, then they might want to move up to make sure they get their guy. Overall, I'd say a trade down to anybody would be unlikely.

[Jackie Lee]

6 minutes ago, Luciu5 said:

I think trading down to 3 is more likely. If the Cards think we'll get a massive haul that would be difficult to refuse from someone to move up for Anderson or potentially Carter, then they might want to move up to make sure they get their guy. Overall, I'd say a trade down to anybody would be unlikely.

I don't see how they could risk trading down to 3 at this point. They have to put it out there that they are "in control of the draft" or whatever, but going back to 3 you aren't in control of anything anymore and just shuffled around a bunch of draft picks with no "conviction", their favorite word

[Mr. Scot]

9 minutes ago, Luciu5 said:

I think trading down to 3 is more likely. If the Cards think we'll get a massive haul that would be difficult to refuse from someone to move up for Anderson or potentially Carter, then they might want to move up to make sure they get their guy. Overall, I'd say a trade down to anybody would be unlikely.

Person saif the Panthers were ultimately only comfortable with first or second overall.