Originally Posted by
PELICANSFAN
Certainly you would not a whole team of draft picks, but you have to build a roster that has some value today AND in the future. Teams do not turn over their roster every year. Every so often, it does not hurt to have a cheaper developmental player via a 1st round pick. Those player have the potential to have value in many ways whether it be their salary, their potential development into a contributor or value in a trade. Taking the approach of dumping 1st rounders and just filling a roster with league minimum players would not have helped us build our roster via the Cousins trade. First rounders have value in ways other than dumping GM's bad decisions or adding marginal players to a roster.