BEST & WORST Trade Ups in Draft History 

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Thank you nba superstar micheal jordan

@@monkeyboy4226 he’s not the real Michael

Yo micheal if you love the bulls so much why don’t you make another terrible trade with the hornets,that way chicago can get a treasure chest of draft picks

@@monkeyboy4226 thank you Monkey Boy

Lmao i came straight to the comments to see if I was the only one who noticed that

Same 😂

Just clicked on the comments to post this. At 8:08 Gary is saying, “Horrible!” He was right.

That’s crazy 😂

i was looking for this comment😂😂

Chiefs the new patriots

Watson and Mahomes would have been ruined in Chicago. This city is where QBs go to die.

@@ryanchase9332 Watson would’ve flourished, Mahomes got really lucky being drafted to learn under Alex Smith and Andy Reid.

I think Patrick would of flopped if he went to the bears.

@Ryan Chase assuming we are just talking on the field, if Watson could do well in Houston he would have been fine in Chicago too.

personally, i think hardcore NFL fans / journalists / and just "football people" can't see the forest for the trees sometimes. nobody thought Trubisky, Tebow, Manziel, Russell, etc would ever be anything special in the NFL, in "casual college football fan" circles. tbf though Trubisky had great stats at NC, but just throws too many INTs in the NFL

@@atkascha Trubisky had also started for one year in college I believe and had never heard the term “hard count” (whatever that means).

I was glad we took Allen over Rosen just based on the intangibles - Rosen certainly had more pocket presence (with the right protection of course) and accuracy than Allen, but he was an arrogant prima donna who made a name for himself in the warm, balmy confines of Pasadena and a very cosmopolitan playboy type who would not have been a good fit in a frozen-over blue collar city like Buffalo, either in terms of his playing style or personality-wise. Allen was a grit-and-guts country boy who made his name playing in the tundra of Wyoming, and physically his ceiling was just infinitely higher than Rosen's in terms of raw potential. You can teach better decision-making and improve accuracy at the NFL level; you can't teach size, arm strength, or sheer determination to improve. With that said I did think Rosen would have ended up being a decent pick too, and definitely didn't think Allen was going to mature as quickly as he did. In fairness to Rosen he got a pretty raw deal. If he ended up with a less dysfunctional organization than the Cards or Dolphins were when he played for them his story might have turned out better. He was never Top 10 material but maybe if he landed somewhere like New England to back up Brady for a few years he might have been groomed into becoming a solid starter with the right system in place. Even if he came to Buffalo and bought into the process that Beane and McDermott were cultivating, who knows? He would have never been Josh Allen but he could have at least been mediocre with the right weapons around him. Sure am glad we'll never know how that might have panned out, though, lol.

@@bobsnow6242 yeah but also don't discount that Daboll came onboard in Buffalo and tremendously helped his development. How much Daniel Jones has developed since Daboll came to the Giants just confirms that so far. Just cannot discount great coaching, and luck.

I don't know that it is the reality, but doesn't it seem like more often than not, the sure thing QB prospect doesn't end up being the best QB from their draft?

Guaranteed

I think mahomes is talented enough to still be successful, but he definitely wouldn't be the Mahomes we know right now. And the Bears probably would have not taken his 5th year option lol.

Ahhhh, any team would not have lived up to what he’s done in kc. Worlds have to align for that. He probably would have made bears a playoff team, but would end up with no super bowls. I dont think anyone would consider Marino a failure…but Miami held him back.

😂😂😂😂 no lie!!

The Chargers also drafted Drew Brees in the second round that year.

​@winstonsyme5899 but he wasn't on nothing with the chargers. That draft paved the way for him and the bountygate...

The Blaine G trade didnt give either side anything that made an impact

The Eli Rivers trade was a win win.

Funny you say that because I thought the Texans were in line to get Mahomes before the Chiefs traded up.

@@KWCline91 nope the Texans picked Watson at 12. Saints were at 11

I'm happy with how things turned out. Besides, you guys had elite QB play for years with Drew Brees.

I'm happy we got Lattimore. Drew Brees still had some good years left in the tank after the 2017 draft, plus, he was DROY. Things turned out great imo

no they wernt lmao

Worst thing our franchise has ever done was not get Matt or Ju a ring

If they had a better defense in the mid 2010’s, they might have had a better chance.

@@victorvaughn4281 FAX 💯

@@fortynights1513 FAX 💯

Get ready they are about to be GREAT AGAIN.

he probably should’ve went to a yard sale that day 😂

Yo I thought that was him

"Horrible!"

No way the Niners were taking Trubisky. Just stay at the spot and draft your guy and lose no draft picks.

The Bears are a massive mistake on all fronts. Why break from tradition?

​@@CommodoreFloopjack78 you have no business talking you are a Vikings fan 😂

@@KTF0 word was the Browns wanted Trubisky and were talking with the Niners. Maybe there is some truth to that or maybe that’s all smoke from Lynch. The problem isn’t trading up one spot, the problem is Trubisky stinks.

@@fixindan3592 Peter King was in the 9ers draft room. It was all smoke. As if the trade wasn't embarrassing enough for the Bears, Lynch demanded an extra 3rd round pick solely to see if Pace would be dumb enough to do it, and to no one's surprise he was.

He was going to break sooner or later, that was before the NFL made looking at a QB a penalty.

Tebow wasn't really a bust, either. Him and RGIII just got put in bad situations.

@@AnOtHeRsOnIcMaIn rg3 way better than tebow. way more potential as a nfl qb i should say

RGIII could have been maybe not a franchise QB, but a very good one. Snyder screwed that up like he screwed everything up. Just disgusting he ran that team as badly as he did and acted as badly as he did and was “punished” with a 20x return on his investment.

@@mortystraphouse5077 I never said he was better than RGIII, I just said he wasn't a bust.

Imagine everyone surprised when a running QB gets hurt. The odds are what 100%? If you watched him actually throw the football, he wasn't very good. Once he was to beat up to run, he'd have been done anyway. Look at 99.9% of all the 1 read and run QBs. And RG3 was a 1 read and run QB. You don't win with one. NFL history shows you this. They don't last. By the time they learned enough to not totally suck they are out of the league. Jackson has lasted the longest and he's won nothing. All thou this year he might not because he great but because the AFC isn't good, and the defense is elite. He could easily carry him to a SB. Just like Seattle's did to Wilson.

Griffin was always going to get hurt. He was probably the worst player I have ever seen when it came to self-protection instincts, and had already suffered one torn ACL in college. Every time he got hit he looked like a ragdoll. It was honestly bizarre. It really didn't matter though, he simply didn't have the talent to maintain that performance level even if he had stayed healthy. He was fast, but he wasn't elusive, and he had horrible awareness in the pocket. He basically had to catch the defense off guard, and he did in that first season. NFL coaches figured out how to play the read option the next season though, ever since it's only been highly productive if you had a truly elite runner of the ball at QB. It was a flash in the pan.

RG3 being constantly injured was very predictable and easy-to-see coming, anyone who was surprised by those developments wasn't paying attention lol he was absolutely clueless when it came to protecting himself on the field..... it's kind of like when i watch some Jayden Daniels LSU highlights and see him literally jump head first into contact like a deer leaping into oncoming traffic lol like he better figure that out before he steps on an NFL field or he'll also figure out why it stands for "Not For Long".... injuries aren't just about luck, it's also about player awareness and RG3, both on and off the field, always seemed incredibly naive

Like they were trying to do the exact opposite of Jimmy Johnson at the start of the 90s.

I’m guessing it also had to do with their utter inability to coach and develop any of those guys.

The Raiders got two #1 picks for Khalil Mack and another #1 for Amari Cooper. Overall they had FIVE #1 picks in back to back drafts. They blew all but 1 of those picks (Josh Jacobs). For good measure they also blew their #1 pick in the next draft (Alex Leatherwood) who they ended up cutting after 1 season.

Always feel bad for Browns Fans when I watch these trade videos.

As an eagles fan, we also gave them an insane amount of picks to pick wentz too and they didnt get much out of it

Could’ve had Jamal Adams though

@@fortynights1513 he wouldn't fit in our system

@@baruckobungoo8225 I suppose. Looking at the 2017 draft, after Thomas, there wasn’t another defensive end for 11 picks, so he might have been thought of as the clear best prospect for that need.

@@fortynights1513 solly had some really bad shit happen to him... His sister killed herself only a few months after he was drafted... I can't begin to imagine how that might affect someone so young. So I've never held any animosity towards him I always just felt so bad

@@baruckobungoo8225 Didn’t know that. Certainly can affect someone psychologically.

Even the worst of those nine players in front of him has had more of a career than he did. I will say that Arizona wasn’t in a good situation and that didn’t do him any favors, but Rosen didn’t play well at all, and his attitude probably rubs people the wrong way.

Trouble with him if you watch him in college, he was slow getting the ball out. Against good teams he was terrible. And he ago was massive and didn't listen to coaching in college. Those three things alone should have told you he wasn't worth the risk to draft early.

Lifelong Chicago resident and dyed-in-the-wool Bears and McCaskey hater here; every single solitary move that this unmitigated dumpster fire of a sports team makes that fails miserably puts a smile on my face every time. I sincerely hope they go 0-17 next season, that would be incredible. GO VIKINGS!!

@@CommodoreFloopjack78 lol the bears almost had as many one point games as the Vikings last season 😭. Good luck on that

@@pjohn3476 Rex Grossman who? Cody Parkey where? THE PLAYOFFS?!?🤡

All of that only to win just as many playoff games as the Bears……..0! 😂😂😂

​@@CommodoreFloopjack78 talk all you want WHEN the Vikings actually win a Super Bowl 😂

thats what im saying. I was waiting them to mention lamar after the two joshes but it never came.

Proof again that the Ravens get no respect from the media.

Fuck the eagles. The cowboys were absolutely gonna take Goedert and the eagles traded up one spot ahead of us

Agreed!….out of all those QBs drafted that year Lamar got an MVP. Dropped the ball on that one

@@kennycai8695 ravens don’t deserve respect the way they’re treating the only thing keeping them from being a 4-13 team

How did trading up to get Wentz work out?

@@Rockhound6165 not every move is perfect but when you make a mistake you fix it. What we got for wentz was so worth it. Also drafting him really led to a super bowl trophy in 2017 plus gave us the roster we have today. Without trading for wentz we dont have hurts today, nor a superbowl. You sound like a hater.

Can’t believe we gave you AJ Brown😭 Hope Burks will be something tho

A Super Bowl? Without Wentz they don't have home field advantage.

Second worst trade in history.

It's not like the team was a RB away from a SB. Trading your whole draft for one should have gotten him fired 2 seconds after the trade. Even if Williams goes to the HOF it wasn't going to win NO at the time anything. They had a horrible team that need young talent not a RB for your whole draft.

Absolutely! On a personal note, I was the only one in my family who predicted the Devonta move. Parents and brother refused to believe me. And then the Eagles did it, and we all went WILD

Well this didn't age well so far

also as a Panthers fan, i said this from the very start: trading up for Bryce Young will go down as one of the biggest bonehead trades of all time, it will set this franchise back YEARS while Chicago, thanks to us, will be set up for one of the most epic drafts of all time with one of the most stacked draft classes in YEARS..... we could have stayed pat at #9 overall, taken Jalen Carter (imagine that D-line with Derrick Brown, bet Brian Burns wouldn't have wanted out with that situation), kept the 2024 1st rd Caleb/Maye lotto ticket, and had one of the most elite rated QB prospects in years throwing to DJ Moore for years to come with an electric young pass rushing defense...... but instead of all that, we have nothing but a QB who looks like Eddy Piniero under center, and can barely even throw a quick out with proper velocity because of his tiny soft arm this team is absolutely ruined for the foreseeable future only the biggest clown show operation in the league would literally sell out their future for the smallest slightest tiniest quarterback in NFL history Tepper is an absolute clown who forced this pick because his wife "loved Bryce's personality" after a dinner more than she liked CJ's who the coaches and scouts valued higher this team SUCKS, and Bryce is a joke

Ehhh but if it's actually your franchise QB a bad rookie season while they learn shouldn't stop them from becoming great... Payton Manning was left out for the wolves rookie season...had one of the worst seasons a QB has had in history as a rookie...second season he became the guy...joe burrow was killed his rookie season getting sacked I can't even remember how many times...hes still the guy...if the qb has the talent teams are looking for.... starting their rookie year shouldn't effect the outcome...if they are a franchise QB they need a mindset of getting knocked down and keep going...if Brady's mentality broke after the perfect season fuck up...and then losing another Superbowl to the giants...he'd never go down as the greatest

@@cozmicking7275 Troy Aikman too, if I remember right.

Nobody knew who Mahomes really was outside of Texas and scouts who do it for a living. Mahomes was not a winner in college barely made 1 bowl game. He had a second round grade. He just happened to land on a playoff team. Deshaun is the only prospect who was clearly better.

@@damianpresha9833 seriously name ONE person before that draft who had Mahomes as a 2nd rounder. You're smoking crack. Nobody knew he was gonna be the next Dan Marino sure. But everybody knew he had insane arm talent. Stop making shit up because your team fucked up. He was clearly far and away a better prospect than Trubisky. Who played 1 season and couldn't beat out Marquise Williams before that who didnt even sniff the league.

bears gonna bears smh

Gilbert was awful. He was lazy.

@@jesse1834 constantly in trouble too. I remember him getting in trouble for throwing his dip spit cup into another car or something. Total jackass

Browns had the pick that they traded for HOU to take Watson only for them to trade away the farm for Watson like 5 years later.

As a Cards fan I 100% Agree! Only great 1st rd picks were Peterson and Fitzgerald!

also drafted kyler murray over nick bosa.

@Fobbos hindsight is 2020...many teams passed over Brady and Mahommes also

@@perman66 Mahomes was drafted #10 so it's not much of a stretch. Brady was drafted in the 6th round though.

@@Fobbos even if we drafted Bosa in typical Cardinal fashion he would have been gone by now like every other 1st round pick.

What would that get you now?

@@fortynights1513 that’d probably get you like a low to mid 2nd round talent nowadays, depending on what the 1st round pick is

Not sure if I’d quite go that far (I usually hear Anthony Munoz as the top left tackle), but Jones was phenomenal.

Willie Roaf

@@fortynights1513 If you got stuck with either I'm sure each team would have been happy. Both are A1 and A2 as all-time great OTs. Muntz had the slightest of edges but with both their skill levels it didn't matter but were amazing. Cinny had they gotten stuck with Jones would have been just as happy and Seattle would have been with Muntz over Jones. Muntz was supposed to be great. Jones was not on the same level draft talent wise. He just turned out to be on Muntz's level so to speak.

and Khalil Mack was there for the taking.

For sure but those 2 years for them was nice, two afc title games and beating Brady and peyton

Trey Lance is interesting cause this mistake would've stuck out more had SF not gotten lucky and drafted (Possibly) the franchise guy in Purdy with the last pick of the draft. So it didn't end up taking the team much as it should've.

Every QB is a system QB when Andy Reid is your coach, bro 😂

Just about every successful quarterback would be less successful if you take them out of their comfort zone. Doesn’t disqualify him from being good.

What was silly they didn't need to trade he'd have been there anyway. No one in the NFL thought he'd be anything. Most thought he needed to change positions. The trade worked out well for them, but it was a waste of picks. He'd have been sitting there when they were picking anyway. Plus had Flaco not flamed out he might have never seen the field. So, at the time it was a wasted trade to get a QB who should have never played had Flaco not melted down after winning a SB.

@@larrylindgren9484it was part of being Ozzie newsomes last first round pick

As a niners fan, I laugh so that I don't cry