Also, DeMeco Ryans to the Texans
Done deal.
I’m confused. How do the Broncos have a first round pick to trade away for Sean Payton? Didn’t they already trade away this year’s first and next year’s first to get Russell Wilson?
It’s the 49ers pick by way of Miami for Bradley Chubb. Pick 29.
Oh, gotcha, that makes sense.
Beat me to it. It’s listed on this page.
I’d missed that detail in previous discussions, this makes the cost of the trade a lot more logical. In my head I’d been thinking the Saints were getting a top 5 pick and I was too lazy to actually check the official draft order.
Payton early on said that compensation would likely be a “mid to late 1st” and that’s pretty much exactly what this turned out to be plus the 2024 pick swap as a sweetener.
Fun fact – that pick is now with its 4th team! It started with the 49ers – that’s why it’s 29th – but then it went to:
- Miami as part of the Trey Lance trade
- To Denver for Chubb
- And now to the Saints for Payton
It has 10 teams to go before it has traveled as much as Josh Johnson. He really put the “journey” in “journeyman QB”.
Also, that pick hasn’t been to the XFL, AAF, or UFL.
Well, yes, but it’s only existed for a couple of years.
I also wouldn’t be surprised to see it travel again, packaged by the Saints to move up into quarterback range in the first round.
I wonder if someone keeps records for this sort of thing.
I just googled “most trades nfl draft pick” and just got a bunch of articles about draft pick trades. But there are enough draftniks out there, it might be a fun mailbag question for one of their blogs.
You can go to a single year’s draft Wikipedia article and search for “via.” It’s klunky, but you can find instances where multiple tasks are listed as being involved in trades.
In 2022, pick 166 went from Arizona to Philadelphia to Houston to Chicago to Cincinnati, who picked safety Tycen Anderson.
In 2011, pick 121 was traded five times, but two of those were Miami and Las Vegas trading it back and forth.
Clever! Now all I need is an intern to check every year since the first draft in 1936. AFL, WFL and USFL, too, just to be thorough.
I put together a quick screen scraper, unfortunately Wikipedia only has detailed draft info going back to 1992. It looks like 6 teams is the record:
In 2005, Pick 126 went Denver to Cleveland to Seattle to Carolina to Green Bay to Philadelphia
In 2010, Pick 158 went from Dallas to Denver to New England to Oakland to Jacksonville to New Orleans
And a particularly fun one:
In 2018, Pick 250 went from Philly to Seattle to New England then back to Seattle then back to Philly then back to New England
Great work! Now, about that internship …
I get to, once again, wonder why the heck Eric Bienemy hasn’t been a head coach gig yet.
I was thinking the same thing after the Super Bowl.
As a Colts fan, I’m not opposed to giving the job to him. Anyone but Saturday, please.
Think we can coax Tony Dungy out of retirement?
Actually, it appears that Indianapolis is going to hire Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen for the position, assuming they can agree on a contract.