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New England Patriots
The Patriots robbed the room for Evans. Final grade: A-.
by dwood84 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 13 picks
· 8 steals
· 1 reaches
The best pick of the weekend was also the simplest. The Patriots watched Mitchell Evans slide 45 picks past his grade and did not hesitate. They executed a plan and it shows in the A-.
The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. Reaching for Baker left real value on the table behind him.
If this class has a fault line, it runs straight through edge rusher. The hoard sets up next April more than it helps this September.
Add it up and few war rooms did better this weekend, Tyler Warren and all.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 24th overall pick they get a red-zone target to build around at a price that makes it sweeter.
They paid sticker price for Tyler Booker in slot 38, and that is fine. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
Jayden Higgins at No. 72 is neither steal nor reach, just the going rate. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
By-the-book stuff, Maxwell Hairston at the Round 3 slot squarely in line with his ranking. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
They read the board right and Ozzy Trapilo was the payoff at pick No. 100. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Devin Neal at pick 105 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. The roster fit checks out.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Joshua Farmer at Round 4, Pick 27 is the proof. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Darius Alexander in the 145th pick is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Circle this one: Mitchell Evans at slot 197 is a fall that decides a draft. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Jack Kiser at Round 7, Pick 1. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
You do not let a safety like Upton Stout reach pick 222 and blink. They did not. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
They talked themselves into Tosh Baker at the 235th overall pick, and the board did not agree. A need, and now a little less of one.
Teddye Buchanan in No. 240 is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.