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New England Patriots
The Patriots won the night they stopped Styles from sliding. Grade: B.
by BBB ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 11 picks
· 5 steals
· 3 reaches
Thirty-one other rooms let Sonny Styles slide, and the Patriots were the ones holding the card at slot 219. Highway robbery. They moved the roster forward and banked a B for it.
They are betting Fatheree II proves the room right and everyone else wrong. Leaving quarterback unaddressed is the roster risk they will have to answer for in the fall.
Good work on the whole, with quarterback the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the 6th overall pick they get a true top target. Exactly the need they had to hit.
Derrick Harmon in pick 37 lands just on the right side of the ledger. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
No drama and no debate, Jihaad Campbell went about where he belonged in Round 2, Pick 6. It adds depth where they could use a little.
Tate Ratledge in the Round 3 slot is a gift, value that borders on unfair. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
They liked Jared Ivey enough to skip the value, taking him in the 69th pick. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They went early on Jake Majors in slot 83, and the value did not follow. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
Elic Ayomanor slipping to pick No. 105 is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
You do not let a cornerback like Maxwell Hairston reach No. 140 and blink. They did not. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
They will replay Sonny Styles at slot 219 for years; that is how good the value is. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
They robbed the room for Ja'Quinden Jackson here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It fills a real need, too.
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Reuben Fatheree II well ahead of where he belonged. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
