If you are not sold on one of the QBs at #3 then move it because you will regret that as well for a long time if you force it…in many ways the success or failure of the Elliot Wolf era will be directly tied to this one pick and if we are duplicating this Packer way of building a team the one constant was having a big time QB.
Here's the rub with the Packers team building model that sort of irks me. By the time Wolf was pouring coffee for the main players in the Packers front office on his initial hiring, Brett Favre had already won 3 MVPs, was a first- or second-team All Pro 5 times, and had won a SB. They drafted Rodgers in Wolf's second year, when he had very little input in the team's future direction. From there, any decisions or personnel choices were made under the backdrop of already having a HOF QB. They had two on the roster at the same time (not that they knew that at the time about Rodgers). NE currently has zero competent QBs on their roster. Maybe competent is harsh, but they certainly don't have a difference maker. The Patriots can't invoke the same strategy as the Packers did with Rodgers (sit a newly minted rookie for 3 seasons).
If we want to emulate the Packers model and apply it to NE, Wolf would have been a great guy to have hired as a scouting and personnel guru say 15 years ago when TB12 was in his prime and they could have maxed out Brady's championship window. The Packers team building narrative is a nice story, but let's jump ahead to the Browns piece. When Wolf moved to CLE as their Assistant GM, the Browns promptly went 0-16. NE fans would go insane if they didn't win a single game this season. In the time that Wolf was with the Browns, they did make some great draft picks (Garrett, Njoku, and Chubb among them). They also selected Baker Mayfield #1 overall (with mixed results). If the Pats take a QB at #3, how would fans feel if that guy performed similarly to Mayfield and was run out of town in 4 years?
We don't know how much Wolf contributed to the players taken in recent NE drafts, but in the 4 years that he's been around, some of the decisions and player selections were terrible. I know it's easy to suggest Bill was the one that completely botched the drafts, but it's possible he was picking guys the personnel team had identified as guys with a lot of upside. The buck stops with Bill, but I don't think he 100% was to blame in the poor drafting decisions. Bottom line, Wolf is taking over a team a lot more similar to the mess in CLE than when he was hired by the Packers, who had already made the playoffs 10 times with Favre.