The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have offered four first-day draft choices to the Raiders to move up from the fourth overall pick to the first to draft Calvin Johnson, Yahoo sports is reporting.The trade would involve Tampa Bay's first-, second-, and third-round picks, plus the second-round pick they acquired in a trade with the Colts. Although that trade would, according to the chart teams use to assess draft picks, be a better deal for Tampa Bay than for Oakland, I think the Raiders would be crazy to turn that deal down. Oakland needs help everywhere on offense, and adding four first-day rookies would provide that help more than the No. 1 overall pick would.
Yahoo quotes an unnamed league source saying, "I definitely get the feeling that's where the Bucs are going," but on that quote, I agree with Pro Football Talk: At draft time, unnamed sources (and, for that matter, named sources) are constantly giving misinformation to the media. So even though I think this trade could happen, I'd take that quote with a grain of salt.




