Sentences with phrase «high draft picks for»

Boston does not want to trade top prospects or high draft picks for expensive rentals.

I see many questioning the idea of such a high draft pick for a guard in Nelson.

Not exact matches

The Sixers have blatantly tanked for high draft picks the last two seasons, and don't seem any closer to competing for a playoff spot than they did two year ago when master - tanker Sam Hinkie was hired as GM.

Coach Calvin Davis remembers the first time Calvin Ridley suited up for him at Monarch High and knew he would become an NFL draft pick.

In response to the absolute boom of rookie contracts throughout the 2000s for the highest picked players, the NFL and its Players Association agreed to a rookie wage scale for drafted players.

Juice Williams was a good QB for four years, and running back Rashard Mendenhall and receiver Arrelious Benn were high NFL draft picks.

His combination of hands, passing, vision, length and feel for the game made him a star at Kansas and makes him one of the best high - potential picks in the loaded 2014 NBA Draft.

Maybe not as much power as you'd like in a high draft pick, but with everything else he seems to offer for tools (and he does have some pop in that bat), he's probably my 3rd favorite choice in that spot.

So we can either hope for a higher draft pick that they won't mess up or what?

Unfortunately for Lakers fans, there's a high probability they won't be keeping their draft pick.

I am not necessarily an advocate of trading Free, but who would offer this package (a high 2nd rounder this year and an early pick next year) for Free when there are half - a-dozen decent to elite RBs in this draft?

You get drafted or signed by a team because they saw something in you, had a plan for you or just took a flyer on you, but unless you're a really high pick, you just ride that pine.

This doesn't explain what happened since it was in managements interest to shut him down... get him healing faster, increase odds for higher draft pick and give a younger player a chance to show his stuff.

At this point the Niners may be best positioned to trade out of 9 before the draft, possibly to a team that wants to move up, but needs a higher pick as the move back slot for the trade partner.

Around midseason, when Morris was traded for yet another pick, it became clear that for the second time in five years, the Suns would tank it out and amass a couple of high draft picks in a full rebuild.

They traded a first or second for each of those guys (in addition to their best OL), and not only did the acquired players largely underperform, but the lack of high draft picks brought them to where they are today: having to waste precious years of Wilson's prime to rebuild their defense.

Guys have too much on the line to just roll over and play dead, not the least of which is making sure they aren't putting bullshit on film for other prospective employers to see should their current team use that high draft pick the following spring to replace them.

There are at least eight teams that could gun for a high pick in a loaded 2018 NBA Draft:

I think you have to draft as if you don't think you will be picking this high again for a long time so you have to get your franchise QB when you have a pick this high and your current QB is 37 (and not Tom Brady).

This would also give the Cowboys the option of moving on in 2019 if Taco (don't kill me for the optimism) or a high pick in next year's draft turns into a good player (MAYBE we even get Randy Gregory back).

Jonathan Bender, the 6» 11» star from Picayune (Miss.) High who has declared for the draft, has impressed scouts enough with his raw talent that he's projected to be a top 15 pick.

As far as the draft: we don't have a second - rounder this year, but we do have the # 28 pick — our highest draft slot since 2012, the year we tanked for Harrison Barnes, lol.

High draft picks are nothing new for the Cavaliers.

In fact many believed that Harper, who left high school early to play for Southern Nevada Junior College before being drafted with the first overall pick in 2010, was not expected to make his major league debut until the beginning of the 2013 season.

Ideally, you want 8 linemen on your 53 and with all those guys, it leaves little to no room for high draft picks we should be investing there.

A RB high in the draft is not considered good «value» for the pick but a D Lineman is considered good «value».

The planning for the current Rueben Foster situation BEGAN PRIOR TO THE 2017 DRAFT... you don't invest a draft pick on any high - risk prospect without having a worst - case backup plan in place in advDRAFT... you don't invest a draft pick on any high - risk prospect without having a worst - case backup plan in place in advdraft pick on any high - risk prospect without having a worst - case backup plan in place in advance.

The 38 - 3 victory for Denver sent the Broncos into the postseason knowing that they won't need to leave the Mile High City until the Super Bowl, while Kansas City clinched the No. 1 overall pick in April's NFL Draft.

Gary Sargent developed into an outstanding defenseman a year ago, but the Kings now will pay the price for trading away most of their high draft picks the past few years.

All draft picks are risks, but the ceiling is high for Allen.

If we trade for Jimmy G, chances are that we will have a very high pick in the 2018 draft.

A high - risk, high - reward type of player, Green - Beckham could become a big - bodied target for the Titans and new quarterback Marcus Mariota, who was drafted by the Titans Thursday night with the No. 2 overall pick.

After rooting for the Nets to suck for years now, Bostonians will be cheering them on this year in hopes that their draft pick they sent to Cleveland doesn't produce a very high pick.

Then they leaked word that they «almost» landed Jim Harbaugh in a batshit crazy trade for 4 high draft picks and cash.

Two weeks before the 49ers open one of the final seasons of the Steve Young - Jerry Rice era, you would think San Francisco would be kicking itself for not having devoted enough high draft picks or free - agent money to shore up an aging and depleted offensive line.

Sadly Gibson is here your next season — along with KAT / Patton / and likely Bjelica — resulting in G and draft picks going for another high dollar contract to an older player?

Meanwhile, there are reports that UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen doesn't want to play for the miserable Browns and would rather be drafted with a lower pick by the «right team» than go higher.

Though projected as a high - first round pick, Gregory plummeted on draft day after testing positive for marijuana at the NFL Combine.

When the Boston Celtics traded away star players Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Nets for a trio of draft picks, immediately fans believed this was the first step in tanking — i.e. building a team that is meant to lose in an attempt to acquire a high draft pick.

Hey, with preferences on player types (Hunter Greene is a high school pitcher, and maybe the Twins don't want a high school pitcher) and the occasional desire for the top team in the draft to value going under slot over picking the top talent, these things can happen.

Tufte was the top pick in the 2014 USHL Futures Draft, then won the state of Minnesota's famed «Mr. Hockey» award after starring for Blaine High School this season.

There were as many as six or seven high schoolers in the region who were all mentioned as possible first - round picks during the season, and when the actual draft took place two weeks ago it was a 1 - 2 punch at the top for Royce Lewis of JSerra - San Juan Capistrano to the Minnesota Twins and Hunter Greene from Notre Dame - Sherman Oaks to the Cincinnati Reds.

Former Clemson offensive lineman Brandon Thomas, thought to potentially be a high second - round pick in the NFL draft next month, has reportedly received some of the worst possible news for pro prospects preparing for the draft: injury news.

In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of minor league draft picks for the Oakland A's — young men coming into the major league farm system straight from high school or...

Many of Beane's counter-intuitive «we're not selling jeans here» amateur draft picks, for example, came to very little — or at least, less than would be expected from the high positions at which they were drafted.