Jaxson Dart: I've tried to model my game after Jalen Hurts.

This just isn’t something you can plan for though. For one, you’d be relying on a certain level of performance to justify the selection as well as to satisfy the scouting aspect of his abilities, but you’d also be having to plan on having a record that’s within draftable range for the player, a range you don’t know as of right now.

This is something that would have to play out by accident, not with foresight.

Now if this was some “can’t miss” type Peyton Manning going into his senior year thing, or like Trevor Lawrence or Andrew Luck, sure you can somewhat safely plan to lose every game to land the number 1 spot, but even in that case, what if he tears up his knee?

Nuss certainly isn’t that guy and maybe he becomes it, but odds say he probably won’t, so you can’t really plan for it.

Heck, even without Carr I don’t think we have a “First pick in the draft” roster.
I agree it cannot be 100% planned, things would have to fall in place. However, what you're suggesting is that its more likely that it can happen than what im saying. I dont know if you realized that. Anyway, I'm also accounting for a player to have a few spots of flexibility by demanding where he wants to play. (ala Eli Manning and the Giants/SD situation) I'm also believing in Nuss to make the jump. So theres a margin of error. But we can circle back to this post next year.