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Smootsmack provided an excellent summary here.

My sense of all this is that the Shanahans recognize that they need to upgrade the QB position on the team and they are looking at various ways to achieve that end.

They seem to have focused attention on Luck and Bradford. That is good news because it shows they have "good taste in QBs" - - which might have been in doubt to some degree after the gushingly positive remarks about John Beck 6 months ago. But it is going to take a bit of doing for them to wrestle one of them away from the teams at the top of the draft. To their credit, they are looking at ways to get that done... This means that they are willing to consider parting with an excellent young talent - - Orakpo - - to get this done. And that ought to be a lesson for folks here; when a team wants to go after a prime player or a prime draft pick, it will not do to think about offering only your team's marginal players and/or some low round picks.

At the same time, they are looking at what they might do if all of the dancing that is going on behind the scenes now does not amount to anything real. That is good too because an upgrade at QB is essential so they have to have some plan in place just in case they do not get one of the guys they covet most.

In an different thread, I said that I would not be surprised to see them sign a good-but-not-great free agent along with a developmental QB in a later round. And by the way, going that route would not offend me even a little bit. I believe that with time to evolve their games, both Russell Wilson and Kellen Moore can play QB in the NFL...