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Draft Selections
Travis Hunter Head Shot
PICK: 1 RND: 1 (NE)
Travis Hunter
CB Colorado
Trey Zuhn III Head Shot
PICK: 36 RND: 2 (NE)
Trey Zuhn III
OT Texas A&M
Elijhah Badger Head Shot
PICK: 67 RND: 3 (NE)
Elijhah Badger
WR Florida
Phillip Webb Head Shot
PICK: 79 RND: 3 (NE)
Phillip Webb
DL-EDGE Jackson State
Garrett Dellinger Head Shot
PICK: 103 RND: 4 (NE)
Garrett Dellinger
OG LSU
Quincy Riley Head Shot
PICK: 138 RND: 5 (NE)
Quincy Riley
CB Louisville
Dominick Blaylock Head Shot
PICK: 219 RND: 7 (NE)
Dominick Blaylock
WR Georgia Tech
Reggie Grimes II Head Shot
PICK: 220 RND: 7 (NE)
Reggie Grimes II
DL-EDGE Memphis
Stephen Dix Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 238 RND: 7 (NE)
Stephen Dix Jr.
LB Arkansas
Draft Grade — Patriots
Overall C
ValueF NeedB- TradesB- FutureB-
The Patriots landed square in the muddy middle: C.

Some picks age like wine; Phillip Webb at the Round 3 slot will need to, sitting 201 spots clear of his grade.

They covered a lot of ground and still skipped interior defensive lineman, which is a strange place to end up. Edge rusher is handled and the depth chart looks a good deal healthier for it.

If Travis Hunter and a couple of the gambles land, hindsight will be kinder than this grade.

Pick Analysis
Pick1 Rnd1 Travis Hunter
In pick 1 they get a ballhawk on the outside at fair value. More want than need.
Pick36 Rnd2 Trey Zuhn III
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Trey Zuhn III well ahead of where he belonged. The roster fit checks out.
Pick67 Rnd3 Elijhah Badger
Elijhah Badger at the 67th pick is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick79 Rnd3 Phillip Webb
Phillip Webb at the 79th overall pick is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick103 Rnd4 Garrett Dellinger
Garrett Dellinger at slot 103 is the pick scouts circle, and not in a good way. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick138 Rnd5 Quincy Riley
This one needs a full-page explanation: Quincy Riley in No. 138, miles early. They added to a strength when a need was still open elsewhere.
Pick219 Rnd7 Dominick Blaylock
Dominick Blaylock in pick 219 is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Pick220 Rnd7 Reggie Grimes II
Reggie Grimes II at the 220th overall pick is an overdraft of the loud, memorable kind. Top of the wish list, and they did not leave without it.
Pick238 Rnd7 Stephen Dix Jr.
Value said wait; Stephen Dix Jr. in No. 238 says they were not listening. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.