Jacksonville and Baltimore Trade Picks, Jaguars Choose 8th Overall

Jaguars take DE Derrick Harvey. They gave up two 3rd round picks and a 4th round pick and got Baltimore runs away happy. Although the Ravens haven't been very good at getting productive 3rd round players in years past, the number of choices they have acquired with this trade makes the value overwhelming. What counts is that it lets them sit right around where Brian Brohm or Chad Henne might fall, and the 3rd round picks let them move up to get them if they have to. Good stuff. 

It's looking like the big story of this draft is the early run on D-line. When neither Dorsey or Gholston fell out of the top 6, it was fairly inevitable that teams looking to get D-line prospects knew they would have to trade up. The consequence of this is that it means a lot of guys, especially CBs, are falling very quickly. 

I don't think anybody could of predicted that Derrick Harvey could go this high, and frankly it's a consequence of everyone knowing that the Bengals were going to take the best D-lineman left on the board. At the same time, Harvey at this pick is a bit of a reach since won't be very good against the run. You don't get a situational guy in the top 10, and I think desperation may have cost the Jaguars quite a bit in the long run.