Chargers News: Why The Bolts Should Trade Back In The Draft
With your Los Angeles Chargers still dangerously over the NFL's salary cap this season (the club needs to trim $20 million off its budget, per overthecap.com), new general manager Joe Hortiz will need to make some difficult choices in the coming weeks and months.
LA just cut veteran linebacker Eric Kendricks. Wide receiver Mike Williams seems likely to be ditched, but it's possible that even pricey elite Pro Bowl defenders like Khalil Mack and Joey Bosa may be headed out the door, too.
During a new episode of the Bleav In Chargers podcast, LA play-by-play commentator Matt "Money" Smith and legendary Bolts fullback Lorenzo Neal unpacked whether or not it might behoove the franchise to trade back from multiple picks in this year's NFL draft (including the No. 5 selection) to acquire more draft selections. Smith explained his thinking.
"I think if it were up to Coach Harbaugh and Joe Hortiz, they'd probably like their eight draft picks to turn into 11 or 12, and they'd like to see all those guys make the team," Smith said. "They would love to populate this roster, because it is too veteran. It really had become way too veteran-laden, way too many veteran contracts on this team and not enough young talent had been able to stick around or they'd not been able to make the roster just over the last three or four years."
