Mock draft exercise with trade values

I thought this might be fun. People value prospects differently, especially when talking about who we’d trade up for and at what cost. It might be fun to compare our mock drafts with the idea of everyone using the same 7 rd. Mock draft (Draftteck) and a draft trade value chart to make our own.

Here are the rules to make it more realistic:

1. You can choose to keep who is mocked to us or pick another player that Hasn’t been drafted yet to that point within the same round.
For example, if you choose not to trade up, you can 1. Decide to keep the player that is mocked to us or 2. Pick any player that is drafted from pick 21 - 32 (first round).
2. You can’t trade up or down more than twice in the draft.
3. No players in a trade because it’s hard to quantify player values.
4. You can trade up into another round at any time but You can’t trade completely out of a round With our first 2 picks.
For example, Steelers always value their first round pick; they would never trade pick #20 for pick #48 in order to get extra picks. Too unlikely. In contrast I can see a scenario where they couple our 2019 3rd (#66/260 points) and this years 2019 4th (#122/50 points) to move back up into the 2nd for the colts (#59/310 points).
5. You can use next years picks but the point value for a 2020 pick should reflect the value of this years pick except a full round lower. For example, you want to use our 2020 third and pair it with this years 2019 2nd to move up; The value of the 2020 3rd is equal to our 2019 4th.
6. No 2020 comp picks.

Here are links to the mock draft https://www.drafttek.com/2019-NFL-Mock-Draft-Round1.asp and the trade value chart http://www.drafttek.com/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart.asp

If people like this I’d be open to using a different mock draft and tweak the rules

ADVISE—
To avoid the site from timing out and losing everything you’re working on, I’d write it all down on paper and then log on to post. It’s happened a few times to me already.

 

I was actually messing around with something like this today. I am no draftnik, but to my untrained eyes, once the draft moves past pick #15, there is not much separation between the rest of the 1st round through the early part of the 3rd round. I was checking to see what it would look like to trade pick #20, along with picks #83, #123, and #141 to Kansas City for picks #29, #61, and #63. This would give the Steelers five picks in the first 3 rounds (29, 52, 61, 63, and 66) to meet several of their needs: ILB, CB, S, WR, TE or OLB. 5 of the top 66, would be better than 4 of the top 83. I know as conservative as the Steelers are, something like this would never happen. The Chiefs probably have as many needs as the Steelers anyway.

 

1.(16) Brian Burns OLB/EDGE
**Traded #20/850 & #83/175 = 1025 for Panthers #16/1000

2.(52) Darnell Savage S

3.(66) Julian Love CB

3.(83) NA

4.(104) David Long JR ILB
**Traded 2020 4th/35; #141/35; #192/14 = 84 for 49ers #104/86

4.(122) David Sills WR

5.(141) NA

6.(175) Mecole Hardman WR

6.(207) Alec Eberle OL

7.(219) Isaac Nauta TE