A.J. Jefferson trade compensation

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I see on the Vikings board (Purple Pride) that the A.J. Jefferson trade involved the Cardinals sending our seventh rounder to Minnesota in exchange for both of the Vikings' sixth round picks (their own pick and Tennessee's pick acquired during the 2012 draft).

I don't know if that's been officially been confirmed, but it sounds reasonable to me.


http://www.purplepride.org/f2/vikings-8-picks-2013-nfl-draft-1111087/
 

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I never heard of any official confirmation on the trade details. What you state would be good.
 

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Too much ambiguity about this trade. Details were never clearly presented.

Guess we'll have to wait until draft day.
 

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Not saying Potter is a great example, but he is certainly a pretty good example of the quality that can be found late in the draft as he was a 7th rounder.
 

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Dont just write them off that easily. Sometimes, they are the catalyst in getting top-end deals done i.e. moving up in the draft.
 

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Hell, Levi Brown was a 7th rounder. And Adrien Peterson was a 6th round pick as well..
 
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Hell, Levi Brown was a 7th rounder. And Adrien Peterson was a 6th round pick as well..

??? Is that a joke?

Anyway picks are picks never discredit any of them, I would have given up AJ for a 8Th round pick if we could he's a bum
 

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So in Round 6 the Cards have something like pick 6 (flip order with browns in alternate rounds), pick 8 (Minny from Tenn) and Minny's pick #21.
According to the sketchy Trade value chart, those three are the equivalent of a mid 4th round pick? Ammunition for some movement, if they want.
 

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Of course Pat Tillman was a 7th round draft pick.
 

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2 6's could equal a 5th also if we traded up.

Although, I am fine with the idea of giving Keim, & Licht as many picks as possible this year.
 

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??? Is that a joke?

Anyway picks are picks never discredit any of them, I would have given up AJ for a 8Th round pick if we could he's a bum
Explain why you considered AJ a "bum." He was a UDFA (that some here liked enough to mock draft him for us in the 6th round) with tremendous raw speed, jumping ability and ball skills (& a willingness to stick his nose into the action) who needed time to develop but was pressed into action probably earlier than ideal. True, he wasn't infallible (& fell victim to a logjam of similarly styled corners) but I don't think this alone qualifies AJ to be portrayed as a "bum."
 

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2 6th round picks are worth almost nothing.
we got our starting LT in the 6th round. Plus AJ Jefferson's value wasn't even "almost". He would have been cut. We got 2 6th rounders for 1 7th. Works for me... (assuming it's true)
 

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Explain why you considered AJ a "bum." He was a UDFA (that some here liked enough to mock draft him for us in the 6th round) with tremendous raw speed, jumping ability and ball skills (& a willingness to stick his nose into the action) who needed time to develop but was pressed into action probably earlier than ideal. True, he wasn't infallible (& fell victim to a logjam of similarly styled corners) but I don't think this alone qualifies AJ to be portrayed as a "bum."
definitely not a bum. But the kid surely didn't sniff his potential. Considering Horton is a DB coach and got rid of him also says something. But hey, he was a UDFA we we're gonna cut and instead got a 6th and upgraded a 7th to a 6th from him. So he definitely contributed some positive to us IMO
 
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Explain why you considered AJ a "bum." He was a UDFA (that some here liked enough to mock draft him for us in the 6th round) with tremendous raw speed, jumping ability and ball skills (& a willingness to stick his nose into the action) who needed time to develop but was pressed into action probably earlier than ideal. True, he wasn't infallible (& fell victim to a logjam of similarly styled corners) but I don't think this alone qualifies AJ to be portrayed as a "bum."

He's not a bum. He commits a lot of P.I.'s because he's so aggressive. He played a lot with the Vikings. He helped save the Vikings win over SF by breaking up a key third down pass intended for Vernon Davis.
 
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