With just three hours to go before the start of the draft, trade talk is getting fast and furious, and John Clayton of ESPN reports that the Saints and Ravens could make a deal.
The Ravens want to draft a quarterback and they don’t think they’ll be able to nab their first choice, Matt Ryan of Boston College, with the eighth pick in the draft. That would then lead the Ravens to try to trade down and select their second-rated quarterback, Chad Henne of Michigan, and Clayton reports that they’d be willing to take Henne as high as 10th, the pick the Saints own.
That would be viewed as a major reach by just about every draft analyst, but according to Clayton, that doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
The Saints have made no secret this week that they’re willing to buck the recent trend of teams not wanting to trade up in the draft. New Orleans seems to think that it needs to bolster its defensive line and that the top four prospects — Virginia’s Chris Long, LSU’s Glenn Dorsey, Ohio State’s Vernon Gholston and USC’s Sedrick Ellis — will all be gone in the first nine picks.
One stumbling block in such a trade happening is that the standard draft trade chart would call for the Saints to throw in a fourth-round pick to make such a move, but the Saints have already traded their fourth-round pick to the Jets.
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April 26th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Stupid Move.
Really, Baltimore can probably take Henne or even Brohm with the 38th pick. They should try to take a guy like Keith Rivers with the 8th pick, then go for Henne in the 2nd round.
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April 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Henne at 10 seems like a real reach, although he may be a good quarterback. They already have one on the roster,, who was a lower first-round pick.
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April 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Henne won’t be the pick at 10, but there is a high chance we would move down and take a corner or Albert.
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