Quarterback Is King

Drake once said “I’m top 2, but i’m not 2.” Same goes for the only position that teams can justify moving into the top five and selling the farm for, and that is quarterback. If a GM and/or coach feels like they have their guy of the future and need to move up, there’s not a soul in the world that is going to fault them for doing so in the moment.

It’s all but certain that the Bengals (or whoever picks at No. 1) will take LSU senior Joe Burrow. That essentially leaves Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa or Oregon’s Justin Herbert waiting to be picked until Miami is on the clock at No. 5. With Detroit having a veteran stud in Matthew Stafford at the helm, they have no reason to be taking a quarterback at No. 3 overall. Even if Detroit felt like they were getting close to moving on from Stafford, he’s got a cap hit of $32 million whether he plays for them or not, so it’s very unlikely he’s not in a Lions uniform as the starter at the start of the season.

The Dolphins are the most likely to move up into that spot to secure Tagovailoa. Trading up from No. 5 to No. 3 would only cost them one of their other two first round picks, on top of the five to three swap. As a team that is at the beginning of their rebuild, securing their QB1 of the future is first priority, and they have the draft capital to do it.

Detroit could essentially move back two spots, still get whoever they were originally targeting, and gain another first-round pick in the process to help pad a withering secondary, or add to an up-and-coming receiving corps.