5 teams who could get the Detroit Lions trade the No. 3 pick

Even though the Jacksonville Jaguars have the least pressing reason of these five teams to trade up, they do have the draft capital do certainly do so. Let’s be real. It’s going to be a rough year in North Florida for London’s Finest. They feel like the worst team in the AFC and will be on a collision course for the No. 1 overall pick next year with another rebuilding team in the Carolina Panthers.

But Jacksonville is swimming in so much draft capital this year and next that the Jaguars can move up from No. 9 to No. 3 to take the best player available and still keep their own first-round pick for next year. Jacksonville fleeced the Los Angeles Rams in the Jalen Ramsey deal. They successfully got the Rams to break the Stepien Rule by netting Los Angeles’ next two first-round picks.

Jacksonville could theoretically give the Lions the Jaguars’ own No. 9 overall pick, the No. 20 overall pick this year by way of the Rams and possibly a top-20 first-round pick next year from the Rams, assuming Los Angeles misses out on the NFC playoffs again. Detroit could have four top-20 picks in the next two drafts, the ideal capital a rebuilding team like the Lions would desperately want.

The Lions could get the same player after the Arizona Cardinals pick at No. 8. If the Lions don’t feel like they need to replace Matthew Stafford at quarterback, they would have ample draft capital to go get a signal-caller next year. A move back like this buys the Lions front office time it doesn’t otherwise have. The Jaguars may not be interested in moving up, but they have the picks to do so.