PATRIOTS MOCK DRAFT GRADE B

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New England Patriots

Maye is the Patriots' new face under center. Grade: B.

by Brop9404 · 2024 NFL Draft · 15 picks · 5 steals · 4 reaches
Value B-
Need B
Trades A+
Future B-

The search is over. The Patriots handed the keys to Drake Maye, and the whole operation now runs on his development. Call it a sensible B, earned the boring way.

Every board in the league had Tupuola-Fetui lower, and that gap is the story. However the rest shakes out, Wilson at that price is a win they earned. They won the margins on every swap, and it adds up fast.

The Tampa pick reads as want over need, and the roster will feel it at interior defensive lineman and safety. A whole weekend of picks and interior defensive lineman is somehow still a want.

Good work on the whole, with interior defensive lineman the one box left unchecked.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.8 · Pick 8 · Drake Maye · QB · rank 5
In the 8th pick they get a long-term answer under center at fair value.
R1.25 · Pick 25 · Kool-Aid McKinstry · CB · rank 19
In Round 1, Pick 25 they get an island corner. Need was not the driver here.
R2.2 · Pick 34 · Xavier Legette · WR · rank 27
Good price on Xavier Legette in pick No. 34, a hair ahead of his grade with no real quibbles. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
R2.7 · Pick 39 · Patrick Paul · OT · rank 50
Patrick Paul at the Round 2 slot jumps the queue by a touch more than is comfortable. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R2.9 · Pick 41 · Tyler Guyton · OT · rank 41
Tyler Guyton in No. 41 is fair value, right on his grade. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R2.15 · Pick 47 · Ja'Lynn Polk · WR · rank 56
They went early on Ja'Lynn Polk in the 47th overall pick, and the value did not follow. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R2.17 · Pick 49 · Ja'Tavion Sanders · TE · rank 55
They took Ja'Tavion Sanders at par in pick 49, which is nothing to complain about. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R2.25 · Pick 57 · Sedrick Van Pran · C · rank 90
They talked themselves into Sedrick Van Pran at slot 57, and the board did not agree. A need, and now a little less of one.
R3.4 · Pick 68 · T.J. Tampa · CB · rank 40
Hard to square with the roster. With positions of obvious need still on the board, T.J. Tampa adds a cornerback and leaves interior defensive lineman and safety untouched.
R4.3 · Pick 103 · Marist Liufau · LB · rank 86
Value with a capital V on Marist Liufau in the 103rd overall pick, a genuine coup. Useful body for a position without much behind the starter.
R4.9 · Pick 109 · Zion Tupuola-Fetui · DE-EDGE · rank 169
Zion Tupuola-Fetui at Round 4, Pick 9 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
R5.3 · Pick 139 · Roman Wilson · WR · rank 83
You do not let a wide receiver like Roman Wilson reach pick No. 139 and blink. They did not. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
R6.7 · Pick 182 · Frank Gore Jr. · RB · rank 171
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Frank Gore Jr. at pick 182 is the proof. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R7.4 · Pick 224 · Brevyn Spann-Ford · TE · rank 224
By-the-book stuff, Brevyn Spann-Ford at No. 224 squarely in line with his ranking. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
R7.12 · Pick 232 · Sam Hartman · QB · rank 211
Sam Hartman in the Round 7 slot is a gift, value that borders on unfair. The roster fit checks out.
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