Bracie Smathers
Footballguy
The Browns and Bills swapped 2014 first round picks.Not up to speed on this thread, but this post is confusing and the bolder is just flat out wrong. The Bills traded the Browns two 1st round picks for Wakins (one this year and one next year).Every time one of these trades takes place where a team pays a premium to move-up in order to select a player, for some reason the price paid is always questioned when it should not.
The price is cut-and-dried.
The Bills did not trade the Browns 2 first-round picks to get WR Sammy Watkins they only gave the Browns their 2015 1st and 4th round picks but they did wound up paying this price to draft Watkins:
- 2014 first round pick
- 2015 first round pick
- 2015 fourth round pick
Their is no way around the fact that is the price the Bills paid to draft WR Sammy Watkins.
I mean, the trade was literally for the Bills 2014 1st Round Pick, 2015 1st Round Pick & 2015 4th Round Pick.
The Bills paid a premium to move-up.
The Bills did not pay 2 first-round picks to move-up.
The Bills paid the Browns their:
- 2015 1st round pick
- 2015 4th round pick
That is the cost the Bills paid to move-up in 2014 and the cost the Browns got in exchange to move-down.
The Bills final cost to draft WR Sammy Watkins was the 2014 first-round pick attained from Cleveland and the cost to move-up which was their 2015 1st round pick AND their 2015 4th round pick for a total cost of:
- 2014 1st round pick
- 2015 1st round pick
- 2015 4th round pick
The cost to move up and the total cost is cut-and-dried.