Predraft Trade?

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Hey folks. My draft isn't for another 3 weeks, but with preseason kicking off I'm just too antsy not to start speculating. My league is a 12 team keep-2. We use 1/10 rushing and receiving yards, 1/20 passing. All TDs are 6 pts, passing included (last season the top 8 players were all QBs). 1QB, 2RB, 2WR, 1TE, 1PK, 1Def. The only pertinent players in my stable are Culpepper, LT, & Julius Jones. I pick 11th after a 2nd place finish last season and am contemplating trading up for a higher pick. I fell in love with Jones at the end of last season and am highly interested in having him back on my roster, but i don't think it's feasible with my draft pick. Our protected players aren't declared for another 2 weeks, so below are any even negligibly pertinent players on each team, listed in draft order. Our draft snakes 1-12, 12-1, 1-12, etc.

 

Pick 01: Pennington, Faulk, Barlow, Holt

Pick 02: K. Jones, S. Davis, Carr, Bledsoe, Brady

Pick 03: Bulger, Dunn, F. Taylor, Horn

Pick 04: J. Lewis, T. Green, Burleson, Palmer

Pick 05: Brees, D. Davis, TO

Pick 06: Manning, Dillon, McGahee, Plummer, Rudi Johnson, Bell

Pick 07: McNabb, M. Bennett, Chris Brown, T. Jones

Pick 08: Green, Westbrook, Brooks, Vick, Warner, Moss

Pick 09: E. James, McAllister, Martin, Favre, Harrison

Pick 10: Holmes, Barber, Delhomme

Pick 11: (ME) Culpepper, Tomlinson, J. Jones

Pick 12: Alexander, Steven Jackson, Portis, Chad Johnson

 

So my question is, what would you do in my situation to improve your lot? Do i carry enough weight to be able to trade a 2nd or 3rd round pick for a 1st rounder by letting go of LT or C-Pep? If so where do you think my best move would be? Should I just stand pat? Am I a jerk for even asking because i have the #1 RB and #2 QB going into the season? I always fare poorly in WRs and would like to get a Tier 1 player this season, but I can't justify taking a WR before filling out my 2 RBs, though the 1.12/2.01 team should have 2 RBs already and will probably snatch up WRs. Because of the scoring (and because of some people making huge mistakes), QBs don't fall as deep in my league and as many as 4 or 5 teams may opt to keep 1 RB and 1 QB. So what do y'all think?

 

Sorry if that's too vague of a situation. Feel free to reply telling me to shut up and at least wait until the protected players have been declared to start posting. But if you have some extra time and enjoy answering questions a little more open ended than "should i trade X for Y, yes or no?", your insights are more than welcome. TIA.

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b]Pick 01[/b]: Pennington, Faulk, Barlow, Holt

Pick 02: K. Jones, S. Davis, Carr, Bledsoe, Brady

Pick 03: Bulger, Dunn, F. Taylor, Horn

Pick 04: J. Lewis, T. Green, Burleson, Palmer

Pick 05: Brees, D. Davis, TO

Pick 06: Manning, Dillon, McGahee, Plummer, Rudi Johnson, Bell

Pick 07: McNabb, M. Bennett, Chris Brown, T. Jones

Pick 08: Green, Westbrook, Brooks, Vick, Warner, Moss

Pick 09: E. James, McAllister, Martin, Favre, Harrison

Pick 10: Holmes, Barber, Delhomme

Pick 11: (ME) Culpepper, Tomlinson, J. Jones

Pick 12: Alexander, Steven Jackson, Portis, Chad Johnson

 

So my question is, what would you do in my situation to improve your lot?  Do i carry enough weight to be able to trade a 2nd or 3rd round pick for a 1st rounder by letting go of LT or C-Pep?  If so where do you think my best move would be?  Should I just stand pat?

 

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I say you stay where you are. I counted 6 good to very good RBs that will be available, but I'm sure at least one will make it to you. One will fall to you and there is a TON of good WRs that I think will be dropped so with your first 2 picks you can take one of the 6 RBs i counted (S Jackson, J Jones, C-Mart, Westbrook, Dillon, Rudi). I'd expect you'll end up with something like LT, C-Pep, Westbrook, and a Harrison, C Johnson type WR....But I'm also starting to think you might do pretty well if you can deal Cpep for a top 5 pick. Then you'd be garunteed J Jones or Dillon or Jackson, somebody very solid like that. It seems there wil be a ton of QB's available so you would probably end up with something like LT, J Jones, a top WR like a mentioned and a QB like Favre, Vick, or Brooks after your first 2 picks. I'm interested in how this all pans out so make sure you repost this when you know everyone's keepers! Hope that helped...