Steelers trade Hawkins and a 2021 seventh round pick to the Buccaneers and in return receive a 2021 6th Round Pick.
It's always a bonus when you can something for a player that was going to be cut.
A 6th is pretty good value.
I may be wrong, but the steelers and the Bucs have made several minor years in the last couple years I think...
They got something for Hawkins? That's a win
100% correct![]()
Hawkins cut = zero draft picks= 0% chance of hitting the lottery with a late-round draft pick
Hawkins traded = higher draft pick = .00001% chance of hitting the lottery with a late-round draft pick
People may scoff at my hyperbolic “.00001%”, but anything greater than nothing is a win.
The fact that Bouchette reports on an NFL team and doesn't seem to understand that a 6th round pick can become something in the draft, used to acquire a player off another team's roster, used in an offseason trade, or used to trade up in the draft is an embarrassment.
He is basically announcing to the world that he doesn't fully understand how the game is being played in today's NFL, and the value of these picks that are chess pieces used to make things happen.
He doesn't deserve to do the job he currently has, because he isn't really doing it now.
This is good move. We trade a guy we were 100% going to cut and get value.
As for 6th round picks, the Steelers have hit on their sale. Mr. Helmet Brown, Vince Williams, and O Roye come to mind. So it's more like a 10%-15% of getting a good player. Or a 60% chance of getting a better punter.
A R6 pick would have allowed us to trade up for Josh Jones (instead of settling for JuJu).
Really though, joking aside, you are 100% correct: sometimes it is not about the player in R6, but the ability to leap-frog other teams/move up in the earlier rounds.
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Yep. We’ve done much better than .00001%.![]()
"You've heard people brag about 'being in the zone'. They don't know what the Hell being in the zone is about. I played in the NFL for 15 years and I was only in the zone that one time." - "Mean" Joe Greene on the 1974 playoff victory over Oakland
A 2020 6th round pick? THERE is your new TE! VOILA!