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Old 04-15-2026, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Dam8610 View Post
Replacing a decent starter with an All-Pro is something I would do 10 times out of 10, especially if all it costs is money like Ward. The Sauce trade was likely a bit of an overpay, but the player is elite. Sitting behind Sauce and Ward as a boundary CB isn't an indictment of Jaylon Jones's abilities, it's evidence of the team investing heavily in the position.
Your argument would hold merit if Jones had been right behind Ward and later Sauce on the depth chart, but he was burried on it behind guys like Edwards, Blackmon, and Lammons. And the fact that you think Rodgers, Thomas, and Jones were home runs is completely laughable.

Probably the most telling stat on Ballard's ability to draft DBs is that in 9 years we've signed a whopping 1 DB who was drafted by him past his rookie contract, and that was a low level contract to Julian Blackmon for 1 year who we let walk the following year. And it's not that we've lost anyone of his drafted DBs in a bidding war as we've lost a total of 0 to high end contracts that we were outbid on or couldn't afford.

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