Ghost of Punt Road said:
We'll give you Kayne Pettifer for your first pick
This is as good as our first pick for Nick Stevens. I would rate Pettifer almost on a par with Stevens, and let me make it perfectly clear that that IS an insult to Nick Stevens.
He has got to have the least impressive kicking of any supposed "good kick" in the AFL. He usually doesn't miss when kicking at goal, and he doesn't turn the ball over all the time.
However, you rarely, if ever, see him use his footskills to seriously hurt the opposition, ala Nathan Buckley. You just don't see him hitting a target 50m away on the chest very often. I know few players can do that, but a player with his supposed "skill" should do it more often than he does.
I feel almost the same way about Nick Dal Santo's kicking (although I think he's a little better), but at least he's faster, can carry the ball more effectively, has a willingness to tackle, and for those reasons I would give up our first round pick for a guy like that. However, in both cases, their kicking is probably a bit overrated.
If we're giving up our first pick, it better be for a guy better than Nick Stevens.
I can't believe there is anyone that would trade a potentially top 5 pick for Nick Stevens.