This is the Francis Jackson template, we have already witnessed the blueprint for success, no guesswork required from this point on. This is how dynasties are created. If you want to simplify it even more then buy low & sell high, get your spine in order first & treat your first rounders like gold. Clarke is already six drafts in and he's starting to lag behind on the depth stakes, wiping out the next 2 drafts a massive fork in the road in my opinion.Ideally no.
You always go to the draft with all of your picks inside the 1st and (almost always your) 2nd round intact.
You grow your team from the selections made.
You top up with free agents.
You top up with player for player trades topped up with 2nd and 3rd round picks, thereby trading in better players than you trade out.
And you never trade 1 rd picks and wouldn’t dream of ever trading a future 1st.
Here's the shopping list for the next couple of years (players 30 and above)
Cotchin
Dusty
Jack
Grimes
Lynch
Prestia
Edwards
Lambert
Pickett
That's predominantly A list talent, good luck filling those gaps with third rounders.