The plan has always been to get three top 15 talents in this draft. Our pick, Texans pick, Trade up with a combo of other picks.
Nope. You don't pass on Lamar Jackson with the draft capital that we have. You draft Jackson and you trade up for Derwin James with the Texans pick. You can still possibly trade up for Saquon but you need to go about getting them in that order.
Jackson with our own pick
Derwin James with the Texans pick
Saquon with a combo of other picks
The reason why you can't pass up on Lamar for DJ or Saquon is because with our draft capital we are almost guaranteed to get two of the three. In order to have enough capital to get them we need to draft the one with our first pick that would require the most picks (Lamar Jackson) trade the Texans pick for the one who's the best player in the draft (Derwin James) and finally use a combo of the picks and attempt to trade up for the one who teams will view as bing the most risky to pick that high in the draft (Saquon Barkley)
You can't take Derwin James first and then have another team draft Lamar Jackson. Then you would be stuck trading up for Barkely but imagine using your draft capital on a S and a RB and still being left without a QB. That can't happen in this draft. We stacked this draft capital for this specific reason. To acquire the most talent in the first round where the best impact players are (which we did last draft btw Garrett, Peppers, Njoku) or t trade for star players like OBJ, Landry, Donald, etc.