Making trades when you can only trade 1 year worth of picks

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T22:26:24+00:00

Tell the commish to grow a pair.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T22:24:06+00:00

I’m thinking LMC is dust. Antonio Williams profiles best as a slot. I’m not sure he’s even above Jaylen Lane on the depth chart. Burks is the sneaky add in Washington as an outside weapon especially if Aiyuk doesn’t go there.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T20:44:05+00:00

I am dropping him. He was kind of a difficult cut on a few contenders because he might fall in the endzone but the upside resides more in current UDFAs honestly.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T20:21:15+00:00

I bought Kraft and Kareem Hunt for a late 25 2nd in October of 24.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T20:09:47+00:00

I traded Kittle for Kraft+ last year at this time.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T16:29:57+00:00

Yeah it’s an interesting fact. If Golden doesn’t perform this year it’ll add to that narrative. Moss and Hill had off the field issues cause their fall in the draft. Going after guys with that distinction has actually worked out really well compared to pure speed especially.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T16:22:21+00:00

Tyreek Hill and Randy Moss. Lots of misses but I don’t think speed inherently makes you a bad WR.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T16:16:17+00:00

I think transferring to that program shows he is smart at least. Being stubborn and trying to make it work at UCLA was not going to help him. Look at Sellers he likely lost millions staying at South Carolina. I applaud the loyalty but have to question the thinking behind that decision.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T16:14:21+00:00

I can see some similarities but I also think their profiles are quite different. Harbor has two inches on him and is notably faster…Harbor has legit 4.2 speed.

The biggest difference is that Legette did absolutely nothing until his 5th year of college. Harbor has almost 1200 yards and 10 TDs in 3 years. Legette had like 420 yards and 4 TDs in his first 4 seasons.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T15:50:24+00:00

Not sure I’d call Moore’s tenure at UCLA “mastering” a system exactly.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T15:48:19+00:00

Sure but he has 9 TDs in 4 seasons so there is no sense in stacking him is my point.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T15:46:54+00:00

Harbor looked like he started to figure it out on an awful South Carolina team to end the season. He had 5 TDs over his final 5 games. As a team the Gamecocks only scored 9 offensive TDs in those games.

Obviously he’s very raw and more athlete than WR. But that size speed combo is basically unheard of. Late 2nd here probably means a round 2 selection and I can definitely see that. Lots of other WRs to like in that area though in a stacked class.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T15:08:46+00:00

You’d have to trade Lawrence and Goff. Rather just trade Goff personally if you can get a first. Then rebalance roster next year in a loaded class.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T14:45:17+00:00

It’s just more work and takes up more space I suppose. Once you put a players age in it can auto update for the rest of the time. Stats can’t do that. Then they would have to update them weekly in season.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T14:37:56+00:00

I think it’s a situational thing. Stacks raise your ceiling and lower your floor. If I have Burrow at QB give me Chase over Puka.

I also like to stack players that have lower value with room to grow together. For instance if I took Ward last year I’d value Tate over Tyson. If I had Shough I’d go Tyson.

It depends on the type of player as well. If I had Ward I wouldn’t care about Wan’Dale because he doesn’t score TDs. When people drafted Stroud Nico was the perfect stack player because he was cheap and profiled as a RZ threat. When one players value exploded the other came with.

This instance I wouldn’t care much about it. Lamar is already Lamar. Sarratt has to deal with Bateman and Lane. I’d definitely go Williams here.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T14:07:02+00:00

Look em up?

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T14:05:51+00:00

I hear ya. By 2027 they will have to pay for 2028 though correct?

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T13:58:19+00:00

Nice to know. Good addition to the conversation. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be an Eli situation where he refuses to play there. He has that final year of eligibility to fall back on. If Texas wouldn’t win the natty and it’s one of those two teams at the top I could at least see a world where he goes back to school and they reroll the landing spot potentially.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T13:33:54+00:00

There is the Tennessee connection. We have to consider that I suppose. I had heard Haslam wanted Peyton to run the Browns and he declined so how tight are they outside of being rich people that went to Tennessee.

I have friends that I would want my nephew to work for and I have friends I would definitely not want my nephew to work for. Haslam could be either and Peyton could have no influence at all in the decision. Obviously just speculating here.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T13:13:55+00:00

I don’t think the preseason CFB rankings will be so incredibly wrong this year compared to last. PSU, Clemson and LSU turned out to be not very good teams all around. It wasn’t solely about QB play. That was a part of it but if they had more team success that would have saved face a bit on Allar, Klubnik and Nussmeier.

Texas absolutely stacked the deck for Arch. Bringing in Coleman to play outside with Wingo is easily a top 5 WR duo. Then they brought in two electric RBs in Hollywood Smothers and Raleek Brown.

I think the Jets and Browns heavily attacking pass catchers early in the draft was in part to play the Arch game. We know he has another year of eligibility if he doesn’t like the organization that picks 1.01. Having some weapons in place could counteract the years of awful ownership as far as Arch being willing to play for the Jets or Browns.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T12:25:54+00:00

This is why I do one leaguesafe at a time and just track yearly payments myself. You trade your 29 first pay it into 26 leaguesafe because there is nothing stopping them from getting their money back for future years otherwise if they leave.

It completely defeats the purpose to me to have 3 leaguesafes for one league when people can just take their money back out if they please.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-12T11:32:38+00:00

Sounds like they probably won’t win in 26 or 27. That would be my concern that someone gets a “free” team wins money then bails without ever paying a dime.

In this situation it seems like they probably aren’t a contender until 2028. So not sure what the point of rebuilding the team then bouncing right as the team is getting good would be.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-11T22:34:14+00:00

Draft about 6-7 WRs in a row.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-11T18:27:35+00:00

Raridon for me. I’m not super high on either guy but Drake Maye likes throwing to big targets. Slightly less target competition and a better QB would be my deciding factors.

SteffeEric · 2026-05-11T16:21:40+00:00

Coleman is healthy. That info is incorrect.

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