I am 100% in this camp. If you can draft Lawrence, you just do it (unless someone offers you a windfall of early-round picks) and never look back. Then you either try to get something for Sam, or let him be the whipping boy for a year or two while you build the offense for Trevor.
But if you don't get the #1, you use all of your draft capital to build an offense for Darnold. If it doesn't look like it's working by spring 2023, you use that draft to nab his replacement.
Well, what do you consider a windfall? I think we would absolutely get three 1sts for that pick if we wanted to move it. I wouldn't though.
To me, it also depends how Justin Fields does. Fields was the No. 1 recruit in the country coming out. He's big, he's athletic, he's extremely productive. If he has a monster season, he could easily make this a Luck-RG3 type draft. I need to watch more of him (and watch more of Sam). He's a great prospect in his own right.
Sam has 9 more games here. We'll see how he does. Right now, the jury is still very much out on him. If that's still the case in April, we'll see what happens.
Regardless, we will have a chance to draft either a generational QB (Lawrence), a generational OT (Sewell), an elite WR (Chase) or an elite QB (Fields, assuming he plays his way there). We picked a good year to suck.
