According to NJ.com's Darryl Slater, the NY Giants need to be wary of QB-needy teams like the New York Jets and Las Vegas Raiders that can attempt to trade up to the No. 2 pick and take the chance to draft Shedeur Sanders off the table in April.
The Cleveland Browns, who have Deshaun Watson under contract and may want to wait to fill their own QB problem, could be open to such a deal.
"Deshaun Watson clearly isn’t the long-term answer for the Browns. His contract is one of the worst in NFL history. But the Browns are still stuck with him, because of that deal. So maybe they pass on a quarterback in this draft and try to find their long-term answer in next year’s draft. If they do that — and then they want to accumulate picks instead of taking Hunter — they could trade back," Slater wrote.
"That might be in a deal with a quarterback-needy team looking to leapfrog the Giants for Sanders or Ward (whoever doesn’t go first). That’s something the Giants need to keep an eye on. The Raiders at No. 6 and Jets at No. 7 are the teams to watch there."
USA Today's Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz penned a mock draft that sees the Browns keep their No. 2 pick and take Travis Hunter, allowing Shedeur to fall to the Giants at No. 3.
The Browns hold the cards here. They can use the Jets and Raiders as leverage to extract future draft capital from the Giants just to select one pick later. Cleveland might have the most enviable position in the draft.
Shedeur is the reason. The "Grown QB" could be a package deal with Deion Sanders for the franchise that selects him. A new head coach who just rebuilt Colorado in two years is a hot candidate in a league he used to work for directly at the NFL network.