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HardRightEdge
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It's all over but the cryin'. No time left to run the speculations and rumors through the mill or up the flagpole to see what grist or saluting comes out of the media echo chamber back end.However, I saw it suggested that the Packers trade up to #20 to get him before the Eagles do. If the Packers trade up in THIS wide receiver class for who I consider to be probably the 7th WR in this class, I'd be pretty annoyed.
Basically you'd spend #30 and #62 on Jefferson.
The only thing that matters now, besides gathering as many late clicks as possible in this high click period, is what Gutekunst thinks.
He said he wants to trade into value clusters, and there are reasons to believe he's not blowing smoke, particularly given what he did in free agency. Trading up to #20, or anywhere in the first round, is the opposite.
Even if standing pat at #30, what's left would allow for only massing capital for an assault on the 3rd. round. Or massing day 3 picks for an assault on the 5th. round. Somehow I don't think that's what he meant.
The value cluster concept makes the most sense in trading down from #30 into the upper 2nd. round, say to #35, and then trading up with the 70 point gain and the lower picks. As noted previously, three picks in roughly the #35 - #70 range is certainly a more plausible outcome than reaching up.
It will be interesting to see if Gutekunst trades away any future picks. That's a poor approach from the long term value perspective since future picks have to be discounted for the opportunity cost. It would be out of character, for Gutekunst and the Packers historically, but if that value cluster is particularly strong he might pay the discount to take a shot at a high value on his board.
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