Breaking down why Titans should consider trading 1st round pick
By Will Lomas
Draft pick wins: 2 of 17 times (11.8%)
Before I go any further, let me say that this was all inspired by a tweet from Marcus Mosher which is embedded in the last slide to make sure you don’t look ahead. But if you really want to see it, you can find it here.
2013: Minnesota Vikings trade Percy Harvin to Seattle Seahawks for pick (Xavier Rhodes)
2013: New York Jets trade Darrelle Revis to Tampa Bay Bucs for pick (Sheldon Richardson)
….and that is about it.
There are several times (which you will read later) where the draft pick ends up having about the same impact as the player that was traded away, but very rarely does a team pick the perfect time to get out on a player.
Very rarely do sellers actually get the best result and really he only reason why the Revis trade worked out so well for the Jets is that the Bucs didn’t seem to understand that ACL injuries take two years to recover from.
One year after the season that Revis played with the Bucs, he went on to win a ring with the New England Patriots and have one of the best years of his career. But, the Jets traded him away and got the DROY which makes it worth it.