Roseman: History Of Trading Up For One Player Isn't Good
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- It's been almost two months since Howie Roseman was stripped of his personnel powers and Eagles head coach Chip Kelly was named the new man in charge.
Now, Kelly has full-control over his team and many analysts have speculated the coach will do whatever it takes to move up in the draft and acquire his former Oregon quarterback, Marcus Mariota.
Roseman, admitted at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston on Saturday, he's not in favor of that strategy.
"When you're looking at trading up, at some point, your board drops off so dramatically in terms of how you evaluate that player," Roseman said. "But the history of trading up for one player, when you look at those trades, isn't good for the team trading up and putting a lot of resources into it.
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Roseman was addressing a general question about draft-day trades, nothing specific about Mariota. It was the first time an Eagles' front-office member has spoken publicly since the power changes were announced back in early January.
"Because the guys who are really good at the draft, if you're hitting on 60 percent of your first-round picks, that's a pretty good track record. And then it's dropping as you go through the rounds. So really, the more chances you get, the more tickets to the lottery you get, the better you should be doing."
Roseman also talked about free-agency, mentioning there is less-risk in signing your own players than acquiring free-agents.
"You have a number of buyers for the same players, whereas [when] you're extending guys on your own team, you know the player, you've lived with the player, you know what they're doing in your scheme," Roseman said. "So when you go back and look at the history of free agency vs. extending your own players, you have a lot more success extending your own players.
"The same thing in free agency [as the draft] – you're talking to them when you're able to when the free agency process starts about their role and how it's going to work, but you don't know them as well as you know the players in your building. You don't know how they are day-to-day, how they're going to react with their coaches and the rest of the people in the building."