Because he was going to be a free agent who they knew they weren’t going to let leave and as Superman pointed out once you do the deal you can’t restructure it for 12 months so once you decided to extend him why not make it work to free up some cap space you can use this off-season or roll over into next year when you will have someone like Kelly who will be a free agent they might want to keep and presumably have money to add a guy or two next year in free agency, especially if Richardson stays healthy and proves he’s the guy.
By my count Ballard has taken 6 picks in the top 34 and 1 has been a corner. #34 for both. In the top 50 he's taken 4 DBs / 3 corners. 1 WR in the top 50. Is he against 1st round WRs too? I don't think he's done anything to show he's against 1st round corners. Or any position. He's never picked the same position twice in the first. The Nelson pick makes me think he doesn't have a ton of positional bias early.
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