In 2024 Steelers traded Kenny Pickett for the 98th pick in the draft. Which resulted in Peyton Wilson. One heck of a fleecing.
Having trouble telling if you're serious or if your tongue is jammed really firmly in your cheek. Are you so dry in your humor that my slobbering self is just missing it?
You're saying that you turned a third-round pick into a very good player, and that it was a fleecing. Let's start an asset tree. For this to be true at all, it is necessarily implied that either the player received (Wilson) has more value than your average third-round talent or the player you gave (Pickett) has
less value than a third-round talent. You're looking for a net win in terms of value here. And on both of those scores, we might agree. Pickett probably has less value to the team (probably much less) than a third-round pick, and Wilson might have crept into the second had people known of his future potential (I doubt it because he plays a non-premium position, but let's not do that to him). So far, so good. You look like your claim stands and that you're right in your assessment.
But hold up. Do you remember where you picked Kenny Pickett? It was not with the 98th pick of the draft. It was with the twentieth pick overall. So do the second part of the asset tree with me. Essentially, given that Pickett went at twenty and you dealt him for ninety-eight, you lost quite a bit of value there. Especially given rookie pay slots. You wasted about three or four years of quality, cost-controlled first-round talent. So you lost that in the exchange. Then have to account for the fact that you lost seventy-eight spots of draft capital. Again, pretty bad. It's hard to say or quantify how much value Wilson has, but I can almost bet dollars to donuts that it's not seventy-eight spots in the draft plus the cost control of the first-round for five years of the talent one can get at that spot.
So I'm thinking you're kidding because that exchange (twentieth pick in the draft for Payton Wilson) isn't a very good one. That's not something to be thumping one's chest about. Maybe if you're a cut-your-losses guy. Then I can see it. But if we're doing an asset tree? Oof.
Wilson is going to be good, too. I watched him. Flies to the ball. But he's not a first-round pick.
And sorry about that. I'm just bored here late night and saw this. Got the gears shifting a bit.
