The Washington Redskins' five draft day deals netted out to being just about even in terms of the draft trade value chart. By looking at all of the trades after the first one, however, it seems apparent that Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen were very anxious to trade down. In some of the deals they made, they left the equivalent of a mid-round draft choice on the table.
The only trade that netted them a plus on the chart was the first one. The Jaguars sent the Redskins the 16th and 49th picks, worth 1410 points and Washington gave up the 10th pick, with 1300 points. That gave the deal a net advantage of 110 points in favor of the Redskins. That is about equal to an early fourth-round pick.
In their other four trades, however, they lost value. Here are those deals (h/t to
Mike Sando on ESPN.com) with the "winner" of the deal in terms of trade value points in bold:
| Team trading up |
Team trading down |
|
| Dolphins (79+145+217=233.6) |
Redskins (62=284) |
50.4 |
| Bears (62+127=329) |
Redskins (53=370) |
41 |
| Colts (53+152=401.8) |
Redskins (49=410) |
8.2 |
| Redskins (127+144+152=110.8) |
Texans (105+178=105.2) |
5.6 |
If you take the 110 points that they gained in the first deal and subtract the net loss in the other four deals you end up with a net of plus-five points. In the deals with the Dolphins and Bears, the Redskins settled for less to the tune of a late fourth-round pick in each deal.
Don't get me wrong. This is not to say that the Redskins should not have made the deals. I'm noting this because it appears that Shanahan and Allen were very intent on moving down. They made it clear that their picks were available at a discount. If they left yet another fifth-rounder on the table, they thought, so be it. The chart wasn't ignored but it was used just as a rough guideline.
There really wasn't much of a point in having, say, half a dozen fifth-round picks. As long as they could get an extra pick or two in the process, the Redskins were content to leave the spare change in the tip jar.
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