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badgerdms
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.
Good observation and one that I noted above.
IMO, what you mention here is the evolution of Snead's drafting approach. He probably learned to select the player they want a little bit early from the Pead fiasco.
So now the approach when you really like a specific target but they don't align with value at the pick you're holding, you do a moderate and safe trade down for an extra pick and then select the guy you are targeting about 20 picks early.
It's worked well on Havenstein and Everett. They got the guys they wanted and the extra picks brought Jamar Brown and JJ.
