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* @nc0gnet0 would be fapping all over this board about the JF pickThere is zero doubt that he would have been the #1 pick for several reasons:
- QBs are always drafted high if they are any good. Seeing that Fields would have easily been the #1 QB, he would have been on every team's radar which needed a QB. Seeing that Detroit was sitting there at #2 and having a pretty crappy QB as the starter, they would have certainly taken him at #2.
- Because every other team knew that they would have to jump over Detroit to get the one "franchise QB", there would have been an auction to get to #1.
- It would be Jacksonville's choice to only drop to #2 and still get a king's ransom or to drop lower and get a bigger king's ransom for the #1 pick. It would all depend on what Jacksonville thought about the top of the first round (which was reported to not be that special already).
- Because the 2022 NFL draft did not have any truly special players at the top, Jacksonville would have loved to trade the #1 for a team to move up and draft the one player in the draft who would have been head and shoulders above the rest of the players, Fields.
- It would have saved cap space because Jacksonville would not have to overpay for a very good player, but not great, who would have cost them the price of the #1 pick.
- Jacksonville could have gotten a 2023 #1 draft pick plus a slightly lower 2022 first round pick where they could draft a player whose value would match his draft position.
- Even if Fields were not the top player in the 2022 draft, which I believe he would have been, he would have moved up to the #1 spot because top QBs are always drafted earlier than their draft value because top QBs are always viewed as more valuable than other positions.