Welcome to the Ringer NFL show.

I'm your host, Sheel Kapadia, and we've got a good old-fashioned fake trade episode.

I was just going through the entire first round all day looking at who could move up,

who could move back?

What are the pivot points in the first round of the NFL draft? Could some of these trades involve some veterans who might be on the market? So we came up with a bunch of scenarios. Our guest today is the ringers Austin Gale. I threw a bunch his way. He threw a few my way. And we're going to go over, do these trades actually make sense.

So let's take a break.

We come back.

We get to those trades with Austin Gale.

All right. We are back on the Ringer NFL show.

Shield Capati here with my friend Austin Gail.

We're doing some fake trades.

What's better than fake trades?

We do it earlier in the offseason with players, Austin.

But now we're doing it for the first round of the NFL draft.

We've done the mock stuff.

We did big questions with Deontay. But where are the pivot points in the first round? Where could we see some movement? I've got a list of a bunch of fake trades I've been working on all day that I'm going to throw your way. And then you've got a couple for me. What's better than this, honestly? Nothing, really. I was doing some research last minute prep for this pod and I ran into an, I don't know who wrote it, but it was an article that was like a mock draft with trades for every pick. You know, this is that point in the draft cycle. It's a Barwell special, yeah. Where everyone's looking for that next, like, how do I make a mock draft, but just different than the other thousand that came out this morning. I like an all trades mock.

But I do think it was Jordan Schultz on Twitter who was like,

I think there could be a lot of trades or I'm hearing there could be some trades in the first half, like edge or corner. We'll see. I think everyone says that every year that there's going to be a ton of trades. There's only really one quarterback that a lot of teams are, every team is kind of a Navvron with Fernando Mendoza.

We'll see where Simpson goes.

But I don't know.

It'll be interesting to see who trades up in this class, right?

Because there's only so many blue chippers.

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