Report: Justin Jefferson Potentially on the Trade Block

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

I'm feeling some irony on this one today.

Justin Jefferson is a great example of how you don't have to have a top 5 pick to get an elite WR. And how, sometimes, you are better off just taking your own stabs at WR rather than trading for an established one.

Hindsight in action, but how much better off are the Bills if they had just drafted Justin Jefferson instead of trading the pick the Vikings used for him on Stafon Diggs?

If the price on Justin Jefferson is two firsts + a third + a fourth + 4/$135M, the opportunity cost seems really high to me.

Wouldn't you be better off spending $25M/year for the next 3 years on Mike Evans and keeping all the other draft capital AND having another $30M to fill out your roster over the next 3 years?

And I still feel like the diminishing returns yielded by these teams that went nuts on the WR market should eventually impact the market for them as well.

I don't know how many times we can see teams make huge moves for FA wide receivers and come up short without thinking it's probably not a very good move.

And hell, the pick for player/contract swaps just rarely work out REGARDLESS of position. AJ Brown is as close to a win as I can think of off the top of my head and Brown was worth it for a single season before injuries and maybe being a malcontent did the Eagles in this year. When the coaching/QB wasn't top shelf, the elite WR meant exactly dick.

And when we've had top shelf coaching/QB play, the LACK of an elite WR meant exactly dick.

There are just too many datapoints to suggest this is more flash than substance to ignore them.