Hear me out. PML has the greatest real-life draft class you will ever see. It’s filled with the very same players you’re watching on Saturdays who are about to shine on Sundays. This draft pool is stacked, and you don’t need a first-round pick to build a squad. I’ve seen users walk away with legendary draft classes built on fourth, fifth, and sixth-round picks.
Here’s the problem with trading picks: you think you’re winning when you flip a fourth-rounder for a 77 overall player. But by the end of the season, that player might creep up to an 80 or 81 overall—nothing crazy. With that same fourth-round pick, you could draft a dude who comes in at 70 overall but has the athletic tools that matter. With age, AR, and training? That player can shoot to an 85 overall and be pushing 90 the very next year. That’s the kind of growth you never get out of some recycled “solid” vet.
Look around. The smart, successful users almost never trade their draft picks. The guys constantly pawning them off? Nine times out of ten, those are the ones struggling at the bottom. Don’t get duped by an old head dangling a name in your face. Keep your picks, draft speed, draft traits, draft upside, and then invest in them. That’s the formula.
We literally just watched the Broncos coach Fallon trade Troy Franklin for a third-round pick. That’s wild. You could find a Troy Franklin in the sixth round easy. But in the third round, you could grab a wideout that blows Franklin out the water. Somebody got finessed there—and every season, somebody will always get finessed. My only mission is making sure it’s not you.
OG Ke
