With Dusty being an unrestricted free agent, if he wanted to leave there'd be no option for us to match and trade, or sign and trade. We'd get whatever compo the monkeys on ALF House typewritten came up with, minus the Richmond tax.
If he has a great year he could conceivably attract an offer of 5 x 800 that would take him to 38, and they'd still probably give us a third rounder, or maybe end of second. Given we're looking to be flush with top 30 picks again, a la 2021, I'm not sure a pick around 40 would be better for us than a few more years of our now dozen or more Superhunks getting to play and train with the GOAT. In fact I'm sure it's not.