TheBottomLine
Footballguy
Every league has morons in it that make crazy draft picks. In the year your league took Daniel Thomas 1.02, Julio Jones went 1.02 in my league and it was him or AJ Green in 99% of leagues.I don't agree. It shouldn't matter if you look at it as a draft pick or a certain player. They are technically the same value. Yeah Cook is a good prospect but he's still that, a prospect. I don't view him or Fournette on the level that Zeke or Gurley were at coming out to provide recent examples. Evans is a top5 dynasty asset whose the undisputed #1 target on his team, and what was he top3 in targets the past 2 years? Jameis loves looking his way and he comes down with a lot of those. If you changed that trade from Evans to say OBJ, you'd be saying landslide too.
Since 2011 heres the #2 pick in rookie drafts from 2 of my leagues, Treadwell (yet to be seen what he is), Melvin Gordon, Mike Evans, Montee Ball, Andrew Luck, Daniel Thomas (call it 50% success rate) and the other league Treadwell, Amari Cooper, Carlos Hyde, Montee Ball (call it 50% success rate), since we don't what Treadwell is yet. Although I have my doubts about Treadwell cause WR's taken that high should produce for their teams in their rookie years. Evans is one of the best so why risk that for a rookie WR who had a good year? Plus, a lot is about to change in New Orleans, likely new coach, Brees is almost done and Thomas was a decent but not super star prospect. I don't know, guess I'm lower on Thomas and higher on Evans than most.
Actually, it does matter if you look at it as a player over a pick, because some years the 1.02 is more valuable than others. Last year it wasn't overly more valuable than 1.08, but in this upcoming draft it appears like it could be quite valuable. Who knows for sure, but saying it doesn't matter how you look at the pick is crazy. The 1.01 last year was immensely more valuable than in most other years and you can't look at it like it is simply 1.01. If Cook/Fournette aren't very appealing to you, I'm not going to argue that. I see arguments both ways but I don't think it is a landslide to trade Evans for Cook/Fournette and Michael Thomas. I prefer Evans as well, though.