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Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan
I don't think there's been a lot of hyperbole about Hankins. It's just that filling a clear need with a good player gives the FO the flexibility to go with a player who plays another position in the draft. If Vita Vea and an equally rated player are both available where the Skins would like to draft them, and we have already signed Hankins, then perhaps we take the other player and get stronger as a team than we would have if we hadn't signed Hankins and felt the need to take Vea. That's how i look at it, anyway.
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That's exactly how I feel about it.
But if we don't sign Hankins I'd like us to trade down and hope to get Payne late in the first.
Per the draft trade value chart, which may not be 100% accurate but gives an idea, we could get reeaaal good value for our 1st!
https://www.drafttek.com/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart.asp
Have no clue if they'll want to trade up, but if they do, how about NE's 23rd pick plus their late 2nd round (63rd) and late 3rd round (95th) ?
We could still get Payne at 23 couldn't we?
Anyway, per the chart, this is the kind of value we could get, and if a team wants a player available when we pick, we have the upper hand and can say "give us this or we'll happily use our 13th pick".