[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by gully

"But NE doesn't like to give big money to rookies, and they seem to like to stockpile picks, not give them up."

"I don't see NE making the switch with us they like stockpileing picks.Look at their history of draft day trades."

"They trade down, not up. Good thinking (in terms of trading down and stocking up more picks) but this trade would not happen."

I think what's missing here is that the Pats have 12 picks, and a good team that went 11-5. Stockpiling picks is done precisely to move up to select the players you want. I've guessed in another post that they'd trade the skins for the 13th pick if Maualuga was still available - it's a long shot but I think he'd be perfect for them.

The point is that the Pats don't actually want a draft class of 12 kids, they wouldn't be able to a large fraction of them. They are the type of team, however, to trade picks for next years picks.

Even if that were the case the more likely trades are either of the following: picks 23 and 47 - 1190; pick 13 and 5th - approx. 1185.5 or picks 23, 58, and 4th - approx. 1134; pick 13 - 1150. What I'm saying is New England will want to hold on to pick #34 because they will value that high 2nd highly. Because they have so many picks they will not see a whole lot of value in giving up both picks #23 and #34 in order to get pick #81 back when there are easier ways to get to #13 (assuming they would want to do so) that would not require them giving up #34.