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Clarity in the Trade for Leonard Williams

I just want to start off by saying this is my first time posting in BBV. I am here daily reading the blogs, fanposts, and most of the comments. I enjoy it a lot. I felt compelled to make this post just to bring some clarity on the Leonard Williams trade.

I want to say from the beginning that this trade was a bad use of draft capital. TERRIBLE USE TO BE EXACT. But I want to clear something up about the trade: the third round pick that was included in the trade.

I want to circle back to the Landon Collins non-signing and the belief that the Giants will (and should) receive a third round compensatory pick for his departure. With that understood, lets rewind back to 2016. In 2016, compensatory picks became tradeable. That year, Janoris Jenkins left the Rams for the Giants. The Rams were sure to receive a compensatory pick (and possibly a third rounder). Here is why that was significant. In 2016, the Rams traded a haul of picks to move up to draft Goff. In that haul was a 2017 third round pick. At the time of the trade, the Rams only owned one third round pick. But after factoring in the compensation for Jenkins, the Rams were granted a third round compensatory pick in 2017. The third round pick that the Rams had given to the Titans in the trade down went from a top of the round draft pick to the compensatory third rounder.

It is my understanding that this too is what will occur in the trade for Leonard Williams. Once compensatory picks are announced, I am to understand that the compensatory pick will go to the Jets and either next year's fourth or fifth rounder will also go to the Jets based on what occurs with Leonard Williams' free agency.

Hope that helps clarify things some.

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