Stupid question I know, just trying to gauge what kind of preposterous trade value he has (not saying he doesn't deserve it).
Would you rather have Beckham or the 1st + 2nd overall picks in this draft?
Would you rather have Beckham or the 1st + 2nd + 3rd overall picks in this draft?
Would you rather have Beckham or the 1st + 2nd + 3rd + 4th overall picks in this draft?
Would you rather have Beckham or every Top 10 pick in the draft this year?
At what point would you as a Giants fan rather have the first "x" amount of picks in this draft over Beckham?
I might go with 4 or 5. Leonard Williams, Amari Cooper, Brandon Scherff, Kevin White, Vic Beasley... or you could trade down and acquire a couple more mid/late 1sts and just load up on young talent
At what number of picks do you say "I love you, but goodbye" to Beckham?
1-4 seems nice but its a huge gamble...
what if 2 of em work out? will they still be HoF caliber? i think beckham is. sooo why take a gamble it sounds crazy but i would need 1-10 lmfao
maybe its part bias yes however i know what we have in beckham. those other top 5 guys...all could bust! its alot more likely then 1 of em being HoF talent imo
Awesome
White
Or
ODB
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If Beckham was due for a contract raise RIGHT NOW? Maybe I'd think about it. But he's cheap and ridiculously productive. Anyone saying isn't thinking. I wouldn't trade Beckham for an entire draft. In the salary cap dynamic leaving QBs out of it, Beckham is an mvp caliber player. He's that good and he's making pennies. His value cannot be overstated.
I may take option 4 I guess lol...
Funny thing is, you still may not get equal value back if you traded Beckham for the top ten of this draft. Maybe last year's top ten...sure!
It's an outside the box thought excercise. I want to see the logic people use to come up with their answer. And yes I want to see how much draft pick value a proven young cheap special commodity like Odell would have on BBI.
I think it's a fun idea for a thread. Not every thread has to be about something that could actually happen.
Obviously you don't do it for the #1 pick by itself. I don't think I'd do it for the top 2 picks either - if those picks got you a Pro Bowl-caliber player and another cost-controlled starter it would probably be equal to the value of ODB, and that would be an above-average return for two picks. Top 3 picks is a better argument - I haven't run the numbers, but I'd imagine you probably get one Pro Bowl player in the top three picks on average, and the chance to get more than one, or to get multiple borderline Pro Bowl players, helps to balance the risk - but even then I'd probably keep ODB because he's the most fun player to watch on a game-to-game basis in the entire league. So I'll say the top 4 picks is what it would take for me.
1st (Williams), 2nd (trade for someone desperate for a QB for a 1st, 2nd and maybe a 3rd), 3rd (trade for someone else desperate for a QB or draft WR White).
You can get a DT, "replacement" (not really) at WR, get multiple OL picks at more appropriate value, LBs etc.
I'd go for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd only if I had a trading partner lined up to get me multiple picks for the 2nd and 3rd overall picks. I'm only interested in drafting Williams with the 1st overall.
Yeah that Hershel Walker trade sure killed Dallas.
2010 Victor Cruz - Debilitating injury, 2014
2009 Hakeem Nicks - Career-altering injury, 2012
2008 Mario Manningham - Debilitating injuries, 2011-13
2007 Steve Smith - Debilitating injury, 2010
1997 Ike Hilliard - Debilitating injury, 1997/2002
1996 Amani Toomer - Debilitating injury, 1996
That's not even mentioning lesser talents (from the intervening Accorsi years) whose careers were altered by injuries before they even got started, like Ron Dixon, Tim Carter, Sinorice Moss and Jamaar Taylor. For all the crap Rueben Randle gets around here, much of it deserved, at least he has escaped the curse - so far.
Look at it this way: In March 2003, what was your price for Jeremy Shockey?
I view that fiction above like the argument about who would in a battle 35 dwarfs with baseball bats or 5 hungry lions.