Yeah, that's just a downright lie by Bill if he's stated that. Of course they take positional need into consideration, especially in the first round. As they should.
Right. Mac Jones, for example. There's no way that they felt that he was the BPA -- they took him because their QB was the corpse of Cam Newton. Consider the same draft, but they have Brady in his prime and locked up long-term, do they take Mac Jones at 15 even if they feel he's the BPA? I think not.