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(5 hours ago)supafreak84 Wrote: I get the guy was leading the league in rushing after the first month of the season and showed some ability, but why make this move with a historically deep and talented running back draft coming up? We could of essentially had out choice (probably) out of any of them not named Jeanty. We could have had a rookie stud at the position on a 4 or 5 year contract but instead we get Mason for 2. I think this is a questionable move especially if we are passing up Omarion Hampton, Henderson etc in the draft because we made this move for Mason.
I think all this does is puts us in position to go BPA. Jones is basically on a 1 year deal. Mason 2 years. If RB2 is on the board, which is dubious at best, we amplify a strong position.
The other thing is rookies are still rookies. You don’t know for sure what they’re going to do at the next level with any certainty. We can speculate but a proven quantity who is young and cheap is a nice card going into the draft.
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(3 hours ago)supafreak84 Wrote: I just think in a historically loaded RB draft class, you don't address your need there by trading assets and handing out free agency money when you are positioned to land one of the elite prospects in the draft on a rookie contract. It's called reading the strengths of a draft and projecting where those strengths land when building a roster. We did this same stupid shit when we signed Josh Oliver in a very deep TE draft. Like I said, nobody ever accused Kwesi on being able to identify and navigate the strengths of a draft board.
Trading away assets? Free agency money? Neither of those dogs hunt. Cmon. Those assets are on rounding error on a balance sheet. The money is at the bottom end of the 51 counting against the cap.
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