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Looking at this Year's Draft Day Trades

This article is a follow-up to a previous article released about the NFL Draft. Seeing as that analysis was conducted before the 2021 NFL Draft, I wanted to release this secondary article to apply that analysis to this year's trades. I recommend reading the first article before returning here. As mentioned in the previous article, there are two main ways I will analyze these trades:  Jimmy Johnson draft value chart  and the Approximate Value regression I ran in the previous article. Of the thirty trades that were transacted over the three days of the NFL Draft, only twenty were suitable for this type of analysis. The trades selected involve only swaps of draft picks (meaning that the Sam Darnold trade or Carson Wentz trade were not included) and all the draft picks were pick 224 or higher since Johnson's draft value chart only goes that far.  Since some of the trades involved trading picks from future draft classes,