Gunzlingr
04-24-2003, 05:03 PM
Is your team looking to move up? Not in terms of social status, mind you, or even the standings, but rather in the NFL draft. Or maybe your team is looking to trade down.
Get out your calculators then.
It is now common practice for NFL teams to follow a “draft chart,” which assigns numeric values to every draft pick from No. 1 (3,000 points) to the final pick in the seventh round, No. 262 (0.4 point). The idea of the chart is to create some kind of standard for assessing fair value for trades. And, the way we hear it, there could be a lot of them this weekend.
The practice was brought into vogue by former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, who came up with the value system as his Cowboys engineered some of the best trades in the late 1980s and early 1990s as they were building the closest thing to a dynasty that the NFL has seen the past two decades.
The principal deals:
In 1989, Johnson and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones fleeced Vikings GM Mike Lynn by sending RB Herschel Walker and a few late-round picks for five players, including LB Jesse Solomon and CB Isaac Holt, plus three first-round picks, three seconds and a third. That trade set the ball rolling for Dallas to accumulate a boatload of picks with which to deal down the road.
Then Dallas traded QB Steve Walsh — Troy Aikman’s backup but still highly thought of — for first-, second- and third-round picks.
more (http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/NFLDraft/Draft+Extras/2003/edholm042403.htm)
Get out your calculators then.
It is now common practice for NFL teams to follow a “draft chart,” which assigns numeric values to every draft pick from No. 1 (3,000 points) to the final pick in the seventh round, No. 262 (0.4 point). The idea of the chart is to create some kind of standard for assessing fair value for trades. And, the way we hear it, there could be a lot of them this weekend.
The practice was brought into vogue by former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, who came up with the value system as his Cowboys engineered some of the best trades in the late 1980s and early 1990s as they were building the closest thing to a dynasty that the NFL has seen the past two decades.
The principal deals:
In 1989, Johnson and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones fleeced Vikings GM Mike Lynn by sending RB Herschel Walker and a few late-round picks for five players, including LB Jesse Solomon and CB Isaac Holt, plus three first-round picks, three seconds and a third. That trade set the ball rolling for Dallas to accumulate a boatload of picks with which to deal down the road.
Then Dallas traded QB Steve Walsh — Troy Aikman’s backup but still highly thought of — for first-, second- and third-round picks.
more (http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/NFLDraft/Draft+Extras/2003/edholm042403.htm)