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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
Yeah, the price might end up being something like swap spots in round 1 and than get a 4th for a 5th type of thing. It depends on how bad a team like the Lions or Eagles like a guy like Joeckel over the other tackles and if they feel the need to make sure they get the player.
Certainly nothing like last year....mind you in last years draft the Chiefs are 100% keeping that pick and Alex Smith is still on the 49'ers.
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In last year's draft there were 2 special talents at QB with teams willing to pay to get one of them and one team cutting an all-star QB because they knew they could get the other.
This year's crop of QBs is so bad that if those players were available this year there wouldn't have been a market for Alex Smith and he would probably have been cut.
As an aside, scouts miss on QBs fairly often. Often wonder how many of the 1st round busts are because teams reach for a QB, how much is because teams that need a QB are often pretty bad, or how many teams simply fail to recognize that it isn't the QB but the offence that is the issue? Kaepernick was the 6th QB taken, at a time when Alex Smith was widely considered a bust. Then a new coach and offensive scheme come in and Alex Smith looks like a star. Now Kaepernick comes in and he looks much better than many of the QBs who were taken before him. Did so many teams really misjudge Kaepernick or are there way more factors in picking a franchise QB than purely the talent of the QB.
I wonder if this year's QB crop might not have a diamond in the rough if he can end up in the correct situation.