When the Pittsburgh Steelers traded up to the No. 14 overall pick in the 2023 NFL draft, many thought it was to get ahead of the New York Jets so the Jets couldn’t select former Georgia offensive tackle Broderick Jones.
But as we see now from this video, Jets general manager Joe Douglas was three steps ahead with his draft board and even predicted the Steelers trade up for Jones, even though he was never their top target.
Jones was No. 3 on their board after EDGE Will McDonald IV and tight end Michael Mayer. New York sat tight, let the Steelers go up and get Jones and let their top guy, McDonald, fall right into their laps.
This was an impressive piece of prognostication by Douglas to predict the trade by the Steelers well ahead of the pick, the player they would take and to still get their guy.
Joe literally predicted the future 😲
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