You can do this with virtually every move or acquisition in sports and come up with a crazy series of events that allowed it to happen, but when you trade five draft picks for two, things get a touch more complex. LeSean McCoy, Kiko Alonso, Byron Maxwell, and DeMarco Murray all played a role, in some shape or form, in allowing the Eagles to trade up to number 2.

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