Q_the_man;2957128 said:
It makes alot of difference, we traded a first and 3rd for a WR who has been in the league for a while, stuck in his ways, I like Roy and he's a keeper I hope but still draft a young WR early, the old Dallas way.
Again, why do you want to draft an unproven wide receiver instead of trading for a proven one?
You said it makes a lot of difference. Why? When you draft a guy, you have to get lucky just to have him turn out like Roy Williams. When you trade for him, you know what you're getting. Between 2000 and 2005, there were 19 wide receivers drafted between the 10th pick and the end of the first round. Only four of them have ever been to a Pro Bowl. Seven of them are out of the league already. So when you draft a receiver in the first round where we've been picking, there's a much higher chance of getting a complete bust than there is of getting someone who will ever be good enough to make the Pro Bowl.
I'll tell you right now, if I could trade my mid-to-low first-round pick for a 25-year-old guy who already has been to a Pro Bowl, I'd do it every single season. I'd MUCH rather have young Pro Bowl players than have to wait to see if the guys I've drafted can develop into Pro Bowl players (or even adequate starters, in some cases).
BTW I'm pretty sure those WRz will make a couple Probowls they only been in the league for 2 or 3 years at the most.
A couple of Pro Bowls, huh? Good luck with that. There have been plenty of very good wide receivers who have never made a single Pro Bowl, or who were fortunate just to make one. The odds are slim that any of them will ever make one Pro Bowl, let alone a couple.
