5th Round (155th overall) - OLB Trevis Gipson, Tulsa | Bears 2020 Draft

[AZBearsFan]

1 hour ago, dll2000 said:

I don't buy that a next year 4 is worth the same as a this year 5th or a 3rd to a 4th and so on.  I know that is way it is done and that is the theory.  But it isn't money that is earning interest over time.  

A higher pick is a higher pick to me. 

I'd rather have the higher selection unless I think guy in front of me is really misvalued and has slipped without a good reason.

For a developmental/traits guy you’re buying the immediate development time too - you’re paying a future 4 banking that by the time the future pick comes up the selected player is more valuable or at least as valuable than the surrendered pick with some value gained along the way. Only time will tell how that works out.

Letting a high upside traits guy like Gipson work technique with two established high end edge rushers who aren’t at any risk of losing their starting spots to the rookie holds a lot of value to me. Certainly more so than a similar move at other positions. 

[beardown3231]

1 hour ago, dll2000 said:

I don't buy that a next year 4 is worth the same as a this year 5th or a 3rd to a 4th and so on.  I know that is way it is done and that is the theory.  But it isn't money that is earning interest over time.  

A higher pick is a higher pick to me. 

I'd rather have the higher selection unless I think guy in front of me is really misvalued and has slipped without a good reason.

 

 

 

 

And maybe that's what Pace felt about Gipson

[dll2000]

4 minutes ago, beardown3231 said:

And maybe that's what Pace felt about Gipson

Yes that was my original point.