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Originally Posted by Henry Fool
Well the fact remains that they risked losing Jankowski too by trading down and giving several other teams a chance to pick him. If they had him so high and clearly ahead of the rest, why did they take that risk? I think the safe assumption is that they simply had several players pretty much even, whatever their exact order on their list, and therefore didn't really mind losing any specific one to other teams.
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Scouting can be a gamble sometimes. Part of the job of the scouts is to try and get a sense of where other teams have a player so that you know if the player might be available later. With a guy like Jankowski it was probably pretty easy for them to identify which other teams were scouting him heavily and where they were picking.
Clearly in this case they thought there was a high chance that if they dealt down Jankowski would still be there. It was certainly a gamble but it was a gamble they won.
It happens later in the draft too. If you have a guy that your scouts just love and would be comfortable taking in the 2nd round, you might gamble and hope he's available in the 3rd if your scouts think that most teams don't have him ranked as high as your team does.
Classic case of a gamble they lost was when they dealt down and took Chucko. Had we stayed where we were I think they would have taken Zajac instead. They liked both and gambled one would still be there after dealing down. Unfortunately we got the crappy one.