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Originally Posted by Cave Johnson
From today’s Ringer article.
“Now the Packers and Chiefs both have four picks within the first two rounds of the draft, and while they likely won’t find anyone who can match Adams’s or Hill’s production one-for-one, even replacing 80 percent of their production at 10 percent of the cost is a good return on investment. Plus, there’s always the outside chance they will hit on a massive talent, as the Vikings did with Justin Jefferson in 2020, a month after they traded Stefon Diggs to the Bills.”
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If production at WR1 drops by 25%, but we increase production at WR2, WR3, and another spot like DE (which we could increase even with league-average replacement players), the team is better.
The chances of us doing those things now, with almost 2 draft classes worth of picks and a lot of cap space: pretty good.
And we were only giving up 2 or so years of peak production from Hill. Speed players don't usually drop off gradually. He will probably be effective in the league for several more years, but elite production from Hill is predicated on elite speed which doesn't usually last beyond 30. The clock is ticking on that.
It was the right move.