WR Byron Pringle is playing really well

[Sweet Daddy Hate]

Originally Posted by RealSNR

Look, it's not that I'm some homer who thinks Pringle is destined for the HOF. Far from it. It's just when you take a guy who's never played a single regular season snap and say he's trade bait, you're just not gonna get jack shit in return. Probably one of those stupid turn-a-7th-rounder-into-a-6th-rounder trades. If you were the GM of the team trading for him, would YOU be willing to pay any more than that?

And at that point, if the Chiefs think he's good enough to make the 53 (which is a pretty likely scenario) his presence on the 53 is honestly more valuable than the shitty trade return we could possibly get out of him.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah "But we got Charvarious Ward!!!!" In order to get Ward, we traded a former 4th rounder and starting offensive lineman in only the 2nd year of a rookie contract who has position flexibility along the OL. Not some random joe WR who had never played a regular season NFL snap.

Yeah, if Pringle isn't good enough to make the 53 and some team wants to do a trade, then fine. But if it's "He looks good so let's use him as trade bait" then that's probably a dumb idea.

At the beginning of the season with no track record to his name, sure. But let's say that by the time we reach week five or six and this guy is really cooking and we have the ability to use him in a trade scenario, what then? it should also be noted that it will be at around at that time or perhaps even a little later that a better player such as PP would be realistically available to get on the books, especially if the Cardinals season is headed in a southern trajectory.