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First Draft

Agents of Change

First Draft

ESPN Radio

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4.21.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Mel Kiper Jr., Todd McShay & Chris Sprow debate whether it's smarter to build through free agency or the Draft THIS season (1:34), share their draft strategy for the Cardinals (25:41), 49ers (30:24), Seahawks (37:54) and Rams (42:38) and answer your #FirstDraft mailbag questions (49:15). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every day brings us closer, closer to the moment when the next generation of NFL stars learn their destiny.

0:09.0

And franchises try to lay the foundation for the next dynasty.

0:13.4

With the first pick.

0:15.4

This is first draft.

0:17.6

Now alongside NFL Draft insiders Melkiper Jr. and Todd McShea,

0:22.2

here's Chris Brown.

0:25.0

Welcome everybody to first draft for this week.

0:29.0

The week before the NFL combine will be there live.

0:32.0

Should be fun.

0:34.0

But this week I wanted to go away a little bit from some of the big names in the draft and

0:39.4

mixing some of the big names in what is quietly a week that is actually bigger than the Super Bowl.

0:45.0

NFL free agency, NFL trade season.

0:48.0

I look at the traffic, it gets nuts, Mel and Todd.

0:52.0

I wanted to get some of these names out here just because these guys

0:56.0

are floating themselves out in the conversation. I'll start right off at the top Mel as an example

1:01.4

of the direction we're going.

1:03.6

If you're the San Francisco 49ers,

1:05.6

would you rather flip a first or second round pick

1:10.7

for one Antonio Brown, or would you rather just get your own guy with

1:14.9

one of those picks? Well that's that's the tough question I think a lot of

1:18.4

teams are going to have to answer in terms of Antonio Brown. Oakland Raiders

1:21.2

have a lot of first-round, so they're going to be

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