**Official 2017 NFL Draft - Day 1 Thread - No Twitter Spoilers**

We traded Cooks to improve the defense. Gaining another pick whether we directly draft a defensive player with it or not is irrelevant. Without the Cooks trade maybe we go OT at 42 (due to being a weak OL class) instead of being able to go defense there. Then we are looking at a DE in the 3rd round instead of early 2nd.

If the value lines up and we still expect to fill the needs then the pick makes sense.