I think I would have done the trade and oddly enough trusted this team to draft the right guys. It's not just a first and second round pick. It's also about saving 20 mil a year in cap space. But who knows if the Chiefs would have done that for Lawrence. Plus Lawrence had an injury that he refused to get surgery on which complicated things more.
Sure, you get the cap space, but given our circumstance, for what?
To re-sign Byron Jones? A relatively easily replaceable player? Or La'el Collins? A guy who is severely overrated?
So we can turn around and spend that money in free agency a year from now to fill our glaring hole at DE?
We have like 80 million in cap space in 2020 and I believe over 100 million in 2021. That is more than enough to re-sign Dak, Elliott, and Amari now, Jaylon after 2020, as well as some cheaper roleplayers like Anthony Brown or Maliek Collins while letting Jones and maybe Collins walk.
If this were a different draft I might do that deal but everybody knows that there is a marginal difference in talent between about the mid-20's to the 50's in this specific class. The talent is not strong through the end of the 1st and edge rusher in particular looks like it'll be a wasteland at that point.
It's a good deal for Seattle given that they can't afford to pay Clark given Wilson's new deal and that they have guys like Wagner and Reed coming up for big extensions. It's not a good deal for us though with our cap situation, roster composition, and Lawrence backing off his demands for 23+ a year. At the end of the day I feel like people are getting intoxicated off the draft fumes right now given that it's 2 days away and the reality of the situation is blurred.
If we traded Lawrence away we'd be excited about having a 1st again right up until we realize that we have a massive hole at edge rusher and that we'd be looking at guys like Jaylon Ferguson to fill it. And before anybody brings up Montez Sweat, if we weren't interested in Maurice Hurst last year (a perfect 3T), we wouldn't be interested in Sweat either.