Percy Harvin traded to New York for conditional 6th round pick.

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Hot Diggity!: Apr 3, 2010; SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF

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Probably a good move, Harvin is due for a career ending injury soon and we have Paul Richardson to take over. And hell, we won the super bowl so who am I to judge

What the gently caress is a Paul Richardson? This is a hilarious move. They might get a teensy tiny bit of the trade value of the original trade back!

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 06:06

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 15:58

Hot Diggity!: Apr 3, 2010; SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF

Brannock posted:

Whatever the facts/rumors are, this is the second time in a row that Harvin's been suddenly traded away from a team for seemingly no good reason. These are presumably intelligent men who don't make random trades for the hell of it, especially when it has such bad optics. There's clearly something going on with Harvin.

I dunno, seems like the Vikings were pretty sold on Patterson falling into Harvin's role and Patterson is a hell of a lot cheaper. If memory serves everyone seemed to think it was a decently fair deal all around.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 20:16

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Brannock posted:

A first-round pick is not more valuable than a proven first-round-pick-worthy player. I will never understand this interpretation of value. What does a first-round pick do? Give you a shot at drafting a star player. What was Percy Harvin? A star player. You knew for absolutely sure that Percy Harvin is a young star; a first round pick is a relatively unknown quantity. When you trade Percy Harvin away for a first round pick and you use that same first round pick to attempt to draft Percy Harvin's replacement it's a wash.

Most GMs understand this, which is why Aaron Rodgers or Clay Matthews don't get traded away for a first round pick to draft the next Aaron Rodgers or Clay Matthews. We can safely assume there was some other factor in the original Percy Harvin trade that gave the Vikings incentive to gamble on drafting his replacement instead of keeping him around. If it was simply his contract, then that makes two straight teams that didn't think he was worth keeping around despite his immense physical capabilities.

He was a young star with a huge cap hit that produced little outside of a couple of early years due to injuries. He was and is a dynamic player, but for a 1st, 3rd, and 7th round pick that trade was absolutely worth it. The Vikings had more important holes to address or try to address with those extra picks. Good Wide Receivers aren't terribly hard to come by.

The comparison to Rodgers and Matthews are silly because those are the cornerstones of the offense and the defense. Harvin wasn't that for Minnesota--AP was.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 21:33

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The Seahawks only get a 4th if Harvin stays past the 2014 season.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2014 22:04

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Now there are reports that the Seahawks would have cut Harvin if they couldn't trade him, which seems ridiculous.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2014 16:13

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