It is true that the Eagles covet draft picks and are a quart low on them in the April draft. It also true that every other NFL organization covets its draft picks and are chary of giving them up. Young players are cheap players, and the way the salary cap is constructed, teams need to have good, cheap players for balance. In the old days, when seat-of-the-pants football men and not analytics experts put together the rosters, draft picks were tossed around like dinner mints. That's not how it goes these days.