Washington Football Team: Three scenarios to land a quarterback

Scenario 1

Trade with Denver into the Number 9 spot. To acquire that pick, you give up this year’s first-round pick (19th overall) and second-round pick (51st overall), as well as a third-rounder in 2022.

Options: Trey Lance, Justin Fields, Mac Jones

Since we don’t know which quarterback San Francisco is targeting, we don’t have a very good guess about which of the three options might fall to either nine or 13. For the record, I think San Fran wants Lance, but we all have to remain flexible.

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If Lance somehow falls to nine, I make the trade.

It is not without risk. Lance is by no means a sure thing. But he has such enormous upside, and at some point you have to make your move. If you can get him at this price – which works out to be a second and third-round pick, that’s a good gamble.

With two third-rounders this year, you can still address a couple of big holes on defense, and you can load up on offensive linemen in later rounds.

But I do not make the same deals for either Fields or Jones.