Lions Can Trade Number One Pick

The Detroit Lions hold the number one pick in the draft, as Lions luck goes. This year, there is not a consensus on a number one pick.

So what do you do? Trade the pick, right?

The only problem is, because the NFL has no cap on rookie salaries, nobody wants it.

How do they overcome this? The only way that I see is that they draft a player that another team covets.

If they draft Stafford, who cares? If a team wants a quarterback it will draft Mark Sanchez.

If they draft Jason Smith, who cares? If another team wants a LT, it will draft Eugene Monroe.

They are all comparable players.

Aaron Curry is the only player that stands out. Nobody in the draft compares to him; his size, his speed, his strength, is immeasurable at the linebacker position. No linebacker in the draft has been held this high in esteem in over 20 years.

He is projected to go third overall to the Chiefs. The Chiefs want, and need, Curry, so who else are they going to take?

The Chiefs took their defensive tackle (Glenn Dorsey) at No. 5 last year, their offensive tackle at 15 (Branden Albert), they picked up their QB (Matt Cassell) in a trade, and their have a No. 1 receiver in Bowe.

If you look at the top ten, it consists of two quarterbacks (Stafford, and Sanchez), three offensive tackles (J. Smith, Monroe, A. Smith),  two wide receivers (Crabtree, Maclin), one defensive tackle (Raji), one defensive end (either Orakpo, or Maybin), and one linebacker (Curry).

So if the Lions took Curry, what would the Chiefs do? They could go with a defensive end, but with neither being projected higher than number eight, will they reach at number three? I don't know.

What I'm thinking is, they could trade with the Lions. The Chiefs don't have a second round pick this year, but they could either trade their second round pick next year, or even their third round pick this year.

The Lions could take one of the top two OT's or QB's at number three, and end up with an extra pick. How can they go wrong?

What's the worst that can happen (or, maybe the best), the Chiefs stand pat, and the Lions end up with the safest, and maybe best all around player in the draft? The player, who, by the way, plays a position that is one of the Lions' biggest needs?

To me, this is a win-win situation.