The first part I'm not even going to open for discussion; I'm just going to implement it starting now. I don't think there was any strategy that would have been implemented differently had this been announced earlier so as of right now you can trade your first 6 picks in next year's draft instead of just the first 5 as in years past.

The discussion I'm opening up is allowing the trading of future draft pickers earlier. My proposal is that once the current draft ends you can immediately begin trading draft picks in the next draft instead of having to wait until the 1st quarter of the next season to begin trading them. It would still be only the first 6 rounds and what is not up for debate is allowing multiple years to be traded, we will only trade one draft into the future at a time.

The thought process as to why this might be beneficial is that if a team is short playing time it might be better long term to give up a future draft pick to acquire the time as opposed to making a quantity for quality trade in which they have to give up the player on their team with the most long term value. Even a first round pick is a crap shoot so giving up a known quantity will always be worse in my opinion.

The possible reason this might be detrimental is that it could make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The teams that have the excess playing time collect picks to get more playing time. The teams in need of playing time are frequently there because they drafted for need the year before instead of taking best available and that causes a repeating pattern of needing to draft for need because you last drafted for need. I don't know if I can ever make a rule to curb that so I don't think it's worth trying to regulate while simultaneously stifling activity and involvement.

If we decide to allow the trading of draft picks sooner it will go into effect the day after the 2027 draft. At that time you would be able to trade your first 6 picks in the 2028 draft.