First of all I am totally opposed to trading up. But there is a very real chance that Tunsil slides down to #6 at the Ravens. If the Titans pass on him, which I don't believe will happen, the slide is on.At #2 the Browns likely take a qb but also pay Joe Thomas the 3rd highest LT contract in the league through to 2018. Them not signing Mitchell Schwartz means they are unlikely to want to pay another tackle like Tunsil a very similar contract to Schwartz to play RT.At #3 Chargers signed King Dunlap to a new contract in 2014 at 7mil per that runs through to 2018 and a couple weeks ago gave Joe Barksdale a new contract that pays him 5.5 per. Seems unlikely that they would be able to pay Tunsil as well.At #4 As enticing as it may be for Jerry to put together the greatest o-line ever they did just re-up Doug Free last year to a new three year contract at 5 mil per. I doubt that they would take Tunsil.At #5 Jax has to protect Bortles but they just signed Kelvin Beachum to a new contract that pays him 9 mil per. It is a weird contract and they could cut him next year without much issue but still seems like a poor allocation of resources since they will pay him this year and Jeremy Parnell (6.5per) and Luke Joeckel 6 mil this year. Maybe they would just eat it and draft Tunsil but they do apparently want to draft defense and that could mean passing on Myles Jack or Bosa.At #6 Ozzie would probably laugh and dance to the podium to take one of the drafts 2 or 3 best players. I wonder what it would cost to trade with Jax in this scenario?? If it was our 1st and 2nd to give us super talented bookend tackles with Smith kicking over to RT and Tunsil taking over at LT, it would be tempting. In terms of draft capital it would have cost us a 1st and two 2nd's to give us the best young tackle tandem protecting Jameis. It's a weak draft at the top this year and we would have basically completed our goal of protecting Jameis for the foreseeable future. This is probably the only trade up scenario in the first round that I'd be happy with.
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Posted : Mar. 22, 2016 3:42 am