Is the time now to trade Tate?

[cadams]

i don't know what they could get for him. last year was the year to trade him as his value was higher than it will ever be again, and kubiak's decision to sit him the entire last half of the season this year didn't do anything to help (and i am still wondering what the hell kubiak was thinking)

[popanot]

Yeah, I'm not sure of his value at this point. You certainly wouldn't get a high pick straight up for him. I was thinking more along the line of trading him for a player (maybe a WR or a ILB just throw something out there) who's contract is also coming up or maybe a new coach that wants to change the scheme, or, packaging Tate and a pick(s) to move around in the draft. I assume he'd be a nice add-in if you wanted to move around.

[Keith]

I wouldn't move him just to draft another mid-round RB. I'd have to assume the Texans would move him only to backfill with a street FA or undrafted rookie, using Forsett as a COP back and Grimes maybe to compete with the new guy.

At best, Tate brings a 4th rounder I imagine, and more likely a 6th or 7th. I'd keep him for as long as he was under contract at this point. The best window to trade him has probably passed. He's getting paid like a 4th yr 2nd rounder ($575k?) in 2013, so moving him for a late round pick would save a little cap room, but probably not enough to make me think it was worth it.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by cadams

i don't know what they could get for him.

We might have got a third-rounder for Tate last year, but now more like a late-rounder and perhaps even a "conditional" pick at that ?
Backs are a "dime a dozen" anyway.