What It Would Have Cost To Trade Up For A First-Round Receiver
Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome spent plenty of time during his final draft press conference over the weekend answering questions about why he didn’t take a receiver with any of his seven picks.
“We tried to put ourselves in a position to do that; it just did not work out,” Newsome said Saturday afternoon.
The Ravens could have traded up to get a playmaking receiver, but that would have been costly. The draft’s top wideouts – Corey Davis (Western Michigan), Mike Williams (Clemson) and John Ross (Washington) – were all off the board by the ninth-overall pick, and the Ravens weren’t on the clock until No.