I am in need of solid RB’s. Should I try to trade up in this years draft to snag Jeanty? Or should I stick with what I have and draft an RB at the 1.06 Half Ppr 1.5 TEP QB: Stroud, Murray, Penix RB: R. Dowdle, R. Davis, I. Guerendo, E. Wilson, S. Tucker, K. Mitchell WR: MHJ, BTJ, M. Nabers, Odunze, Ladd, A. Mitchell, J. Burton, D. Wicks, D. Douglas, D. Vele TE:J. Smith, K. Pitts, Freiermuth, N. Fant, C. Stover 2025 picks: 1.06, 1.11, 2.05, 3.06, 4.06

Will he have “THE BEST” team after all that. Probably not, but I’d bet my Net worth that it’s good enough to make playoffs

No I did not say don't trade.... I said that the 106 and only one of his players like ladd is not enough to get the 101 more than likely. I also said that his team is not one Jeanty away from competing. You literally said that if he gets Jeanty He can add another running back and he's automatically competing His team is not good enough. To push all of your chips in for the future. And if you're talking about trading for running backs then you are literally doing that. we've gone on three different topics so I was never arguing to begin with. You were telling me how I'm wrong that his team would be competing and that he could fix his roster as he went again that's mortgaging the future and if he misses he sets himself back years. And we've had two drafts were running backs were heavy like this in recent memory 17 and 2020

<@TimeJew> Yeah you could draft Jeanty and wait another year and hope to fill out the team. But that tight end room is a mess You would need somebody to emerge. That QB room is a mess, same there. Penix has the most upside there. 1 veteran RB is not putting you over the top here after getting Jeanty. I&#39;m not going to prematurely blow my wad to chase a championship when your team isn&#39;t ready. That&#39;s how you miss your window and set yourself back. And like I said I don&#39;t think one of those wide receivers like Nabers or BTJ gets it done alone. And I don&#39;t think a player like lad and the 106 gets it done either. If the team is barren I want more to trade back from Jeanty. It&#39;s great to have one of those players but it doesn&#39;t fix your roster if it doesn&#39;t have any talent.

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@EskimoTribe yeah maybe Judkins.. and Henderson if he doesn’t go to a scheme that uses him properly.. but for the most part.. no I think they are all HITS

thank you You proved my point exactly!! And proved you wrong!! because I didn't say don't trade I said it's not getting done with just the 106 and player

And my point of the whole thing is is that you look at history and you think there's no chance whatsoever that one of these top five running backs in this draft are not a bust Even though in NFL history that would be absolutely unprecedented. But that he should trade away one of those wide receivers to get another pick which is still doing the exact same thing. It's more likely that he could trade away one of those wide receivers for maybe a four or a five but no one if they're rebuilding and they have any sense in their heads would take one of those low end wide receivers on his team not on everyone's team and go I'm going to take that and we're good

This RB class isn’t a typical class. Just like last years WR class wasn’t typical.

There are years with many hits at a position. Look at the CMC year.

Agreed You seem to think that this is some sort of an argument that like it's not. But again we've had two years within recent memory of running back heavy drafts like this It didn't change the landscape It added some good running backs most of them faded into obscurity with one generational guy.

Yes I know That's the 2017 season I was referring to

But 2017 is not 2025 when people don't take running backs early anymore people were still drafting running backs early in 2017 not as early on the regular but still drafting them early

Yeah I mean I wouldn’t say any year in recent memory carried the same promise and pedigree at the RB position as this year does

You just named one 2017. literally 2 years ago Bijan and Gibbs came out

Yes I know, Gibbs was an outlier. People were shocked the lions took him where they did. That class didn’t have near the hype as this years

In 2017 there were even higher touted running backs. and more of them Then this season.

2017 is the most recent that compares

Gibbs was not an outlier everyone had him projected at the one of the first picks in the second round because again the NFL has devalued running backs. The Lions went we're going to take the best player available and take the position of need as well. I could say they made the right decision

Yeah but you just said there is no running back class in recent history that has ever compared to this one and that's clearly not true

Obviously in hindsight they made the right decision. We arnt post draft yet, the perception then was they drafted Gibbs very very early to where he was projected

But that's the whole point In your opinion they drafted him early not the NFL's opinion. Not other teams opinion come to find out there were four other teams that were considering him in the first round The Lions grabbed him because they knew other teams wanted him

Huh, I didn’t backtrack on anything.

You can't go back and say oh well I meant this after you said something exactly not the same thing If you say there were no rookie running back drafts like this one in recent memory you can't then go well I meant pre-draft. And that's not true The 2017 everyone knew the running backs were going to be amazing. everyone agrees that this year is deep with running back but there are not amazing talent at the top like in 2017 other than Jeanty