Would You Trade Up?

stevend said
I really doesn't matter how many picks you have, what matters is getting the right players. If you ever go back and research previous drafts, most teams only have 1-2 players still on the roster 6 years later.

2009 NFL Draft Revisited - CBSSports.com

Take a look at the draft from 2009. 4 seasons later only a hand full of teams have 2 or more players starting on their rosters.

I bet if you did a study on how many picks per round were still starting in the NFL 5 years later, it would look something like:

1st -50%
2nd & 3rd - 20%
And after the 3rd round probably about 10%

This is the 3rd round of the 2009 draft, of this group only 3 players will start for the team that drafted him just 5 seasons later (Michael Johnson, DeAndre Levy & Ladarius Webb)

Lol

Mike Wallace
Keenan Allen
Jared Cook
Derek Cox
Will all start, just off the top of my head. Others players, like Shon Greene and Terrance Knighton will be contributors.

It's very disingenuous to put the qualifier "for the team that drafted him" in there. All of the teams that drafted the above players both 1) already got their value for their draft pick and 2) in most cases would have preferred to retain the player if they could have