CLE-PHI trade: Which team got more value?

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The Cleveland Browns and Philadelphia Eagles announced on Wednesday that they have completed a trade involving the No. 2 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. The Browns sent Philadelphia a 2017 fourth-round pick in addition to the second selection in this year’s draft, receiving in exchange Philadelphia’s No. 8 overall pick (previously acquired from the Miami Dolphins in the Kiko Alonso-Byron Maxwell trade) as well as picks No. 77 and 100 this year, and the Eagles’ first-round pick in 2017 and second-round pick in 2018.

#Eagles have agreed to a trade with the Cleveland Browns to acquire the second-overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. pic.twitter.com/SdJSegMy4m

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) April 20, 2016

Whenever a bunch of draft picks are on the move, it’s worth consulting the draft value chart to see which team “won” the deal. Of course, who actually wins will not be determined until the careers of the players that actually get selected with these picks play out, but it’s always good to know which team got more “value” in a deal.

We’ll use two different draft value charts to make this determination. The first is the Jimmy Johnson chart originally popularized when Johnson was with the Cowboys in the early 1990s and still in use by many teams today. On that chart, here’s how things shook out.

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