No reason not to do it, according to
the draft trade chart most teams use.
According to Drafttek's 2018 NFL
Draft Trade Chart — # 22 and # 53 get them to # 13.
Not exact matches
(Roughly 40 % more, depending on which NBA
draft pick
trade value
chart you use).
In this exchange, the Patriots got one year of a game - breaking deep threat — in a season where leading WR Julian Edelman was lost to a torn ACL, no less — AND what Jimmy Johnson's
draft pick
trade chart lays out as the equivalent of an extra early fourth - round, all for the burden of rostering Cooks for a season.
NFL teams use a device during the
draft (referenced above in my lead on the Niners) called the
draft -
trade value
chart, which assigns points to every pick in the
draft.
According to the
trade value
chart devised by Jimmy Johnson a couple decades ago, that's enough
draft capital to move into the top five.
He believes that most teams use a close variation, and furthermore, that his own staffs analysis of all
draft trades that have taken place, mostly fall in line with how the
chart reads, more or less.
Based on these pick - for - pick
trades, I've created the following
draft value
chart to show how teams actually value
draft picks.