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when you trade down, the next thing you know you are drafting Isiah Pead. I prefer quality to quantity. Unless you are getting an extra 2nd or 3rd rd pick, I probably just take studs that drop.
Drafting Isaiah Pead is just bad scouting nothing can make up for that. It's not the fault of trading down because honestly both picks 40 and 45 should produce something good.
Yeah taking Pead was the issue there, not trading down. In that draft, the next couple of dozen or so picks after 50 included Levonte David, Kelechi Osemele, Casey Hayward, Olivier Vernon, Brandon Brooks, and Russell Wilson.
Well, Michael Siver was in the room and this is well documented. The Rams were going to draft 1) Bobby Wagner and/or 2) Michael Kendricks at 40. They thought they could move down and still get one. That didn't happen and they ended up with Pead. No idea why the scouts didn't like David (which would have seemed logical when the first two fell through), but clearly they did not.
I like Snead quite a bit, but two things that have come to be a little bit of an MO are that he 1) seems to put too much stock in post-season all-star games, and 2) when they like a player and can't trade down to where he should probably go, they tend to take him anyway. The current version of Snead tends to play it more safely on trade downs--when they are moving down it's often for a guy like Gerald Everett who still ends up being a little overdrafted.
