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New England Patriots
The Patriots let Singleton fall into their laps, and walked away with a B.
by BBB ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 5 steals
· 2 reaches
The Patriots spent the weekend waiting on one name, and it fell: Nicholas Singleton, the No. 105 name on the board, in the 186th overall pick.
Every board in the league had Trapilo lower, and that gap is the story. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 9th pick they get protection for the quarterback at fair value. A clean fit for the roster.
No drama and no debate, Derrick Harmon went about where he belonged in pick No. 35. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Jihaad Campbell in the 44th overall pick lands just on the right side of the ledger. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
They read the board right and Dylan Fairchild was the payoff at Round 3, Pick 11. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Xavier Watts at No. 78 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Quietly one of the better values of the day, Elic Ayomanor at slot 107. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They reached a country mile for Ozzy Trapilo at pick 112, and the board is aghast. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
The board fumbled Smael Mondon Jr. all the way to the Round 5 slot, and they scooped it up. Nice player, but the depth chart did not need him here.
You do not let a running back like Nicholas Singleton reach the Round 6 slot and blink. They did not. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
A market-rate offensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Bryce Foster. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
A conviction pick on Savion Williams at the 219th pick that the board grades a round light. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
