Titans Draft Strategy: Trade Values

Taking a look at a draft pick value chart to determine Trades that benefit the Tennessee Titans

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The Titans have continued to be connected to various rumors surrounding trades. Whether they’re trading away players or trading up to grab their quarterback of the future, they’re in the thick of all the hot goss.

Today, I wanted to bring up four different scenarios involving the Titans trading up or down during the draft. I am going to look at the value and compensation involved in four different scenarios:

1. Trading up into the top-10

2. Trading back from 1.11

3. Trading back into the 1st Round

4. Trading back from 2.41

The key difference than many other articles you’re going to read is that I have taken the Jimmy Johnson trade chart and cranked up the scenarios to maximum level of nerd. I am looking at the compensation and value involved for every team in the first round, second round (including Rams/49ers who start picking in the third) that could be involved in those scenarios.

Maximum Nerdage. This is how you can kind of see who realistically will be involved in trades with the Titans and who wouldn’t. Future picks are involved and I kind of value those in two ways based on what I read.

1. Take the value of the last pick in and apply that to a future pick in the same round. Example: a Future 1st would be worth the Chiefs current 1st round value of 600

2. Go 32 picks later than the current pick and apply that value to the future pick. Example: a Future 2nd would be 32 picks after pick 41 for the Titans.

The reason I am doing it in two different ways in various scenarios is because of how negotiations work. Rationalizing a pick in negotiations involves conversations not only with the other team, but also within your own war room. So, I essentially negotiated with myself.

I tried my best to also keep it reasonable. I took into account that the value of draft picks, while largely the same among teams, does have a 5-10 percent difference from team to team. So, the goal was to try and keep the net value within +/- 10 points. Now, obviously the Titans may charge rivals a premium and vice versa. Also, trading up to 1.01 is gonna see significant net loss, and the bar has already been set for 1.03.

Keep in mind: There are many variations you could do, but this at least gives you a close enough guide as we all head into Thursday.

Let’s get it.

Titans Trade Up into the Top-10