You can draft well and still miss the point. The Patriots did plenty of tidy work and somehow never got around to edge rusher, which was the need that mattered most. It does the job without flash, and the B reflects it.

Collins at that cost is the sort of edge that compounds over a roster. The Jackson reach is the anchor dragging on the value grade.

The Dalton Risner pickup adds a known quantity to a class of unknowns.

In short, they left a little better than they arrived, which is the whole idea.