ASHBURN — After Scot McCloughan traded the Washington Redskins’ fourth-round pick to the New Orleans Saints, he had two fifth-round picks last Saturday, just six spots apart at 152nd and 158th overall.
The first pick, acquired from the Saints along with a 2017 fifth-rounder, was used on Temple defensive end Matt Ioannidis. Rather than reaching for a player he wasn’t totally sold on, McCloughan flipped the 158th pick to the New York Jets for a fourth-rounder in 2017.
“The thing about it was, if I was dead set on the guys on the board at that pick, I would have taken them,” McCloughan said on Monday.