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Originally Posted by freddyg12
1) 11 years ago & under a different cba, the new rookie scale is much more cap friendly for teams to get top 10 picks
2) I'm looking at it the other way around, the Rams hold the clear shot at getting RGIII regardless of whether they want him. If you are the Browns, Redskins, Fins, etc. & you want him, you need to trade up to get him. If in fact the redskins make an offer to the rams or any other teams, that starts the bidding once word gets out to other teams. The skins will have reason to make an offer if they believe Miami or other teams are trying to trade to #4 & vice versa.
I don't think the Rams will have to even flirt w/the idea of taking RGIII, they just have to flirt w/the idea that they will trade the pick to a team that will.
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It's not like though that the new CBA has totally changed the value of a first round pick. The second overall player is going to be a lot more affordable than he was two years ago, but if teams thought before that players at the top of the draft weren't worth the money, they would have passed on those picks to save dough.
I think the surplus value of the no. 2 pick is a lot higher than it was two years ago, but that's also the case for the no. 4 and no. 6 and no. 9 and no. 11 picks as well. So the incentive to trade multiple (or future) first rounders for a high pick might actually be lower than it was two years ago, even if the picks are still more valuable.
I'm not sold on the fact that the second pick is destined to be a glorified RGIII auction, and I'm basing that on recent history. I think it becomes an auction if the Rams make it one, but setting a high asking price while you really are interested in Justin Blackmon just makes you like every other team that has held the no. 2 overall pick in the last ten drafts. Until the Rams come out and seriously considering drafting RGIII, they're just any other team with the second overall pick, and not a likely destination for RG3.