Whilst I think we'll go QB, I was thinking about whether Harris might surprise us and go against against the NFL grain. He's talked about long term focus, so I was thinking how he may do something very different in the draft, especially if the new brain trust has some reservations about the top QB's this year.
One idea I had was to consider a long term strategy of trading a high pick or two every year, with the main aim of adding picks in the following year in a higher round (an alternative could've just adding extra picks to increase your chances of hitting). Teams obviously trade down or out now, but I'm talking about doing this every season, with maybe the odd year whey you just love a prospect, and can trade up taking advantage of your extra capital. By doing this season after season, the big hit on high picks is in the first year you do it, but that aside you should benefit in the long term from the move up in rounds, and occasionally you may get very lucky like the Bears have this year with the No. 1 pick.
It's probably pie in the sky, but it's doing something other teams don't to your benefit, similar to the teams like the Ravens who play the compensation picks game.
It also makes sense for us to start this year as we've got a competent QB with some upside on a cheap deal, a very high draft pick which could garner us some serious draft capital, a very poor roster with many holes, and money to burn in FA. If they don't love any of the top QB's, there are a number of intriguing second tier QB's we could select to compete with Howell as well.
It's probably not going to happen, but with Harris having a background in other sports, and specifically talking about the long term, it just got me thinking about whether he might do something completely different than we've seen before, in an effort to reboot this franchise. It's an exciting time for fans regardless.