If you didn’t know too much about Trayce Jackson-Davis, his situation and who he is as a player, you’d probably call what happened on Thursday night a freefall.
This was a player whose ceiling was projected as high as the latter few picks of the first round, with his floor mostly being the first few picks of the second. Instead, he was taken second-to-last in the draft, No. 57.
But the draft is a two-way street. Players, and their teams, can leverage their way into a preferable situation. Once the first round went by, that’s pretty much what happened with Jackson-Davis.