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We'll find out who won the draft-day trades in three or four years, they say. Nonsense!
NFL general managers don't have the benefit of hindsight when it comes to making trades -- why should we when evaluating those trades? We're grading these draft day deals immediately, based on the information available -- just like the teams are doing.
To evaluate these deals, we'll be relying heavily on our Approximate Value-based draft pick value calculations, along with important factors, such as positional value, salary cap implications, veteran impact and short- and long-term team outlook.