B
New England Patriots
The steal of the weekend belongs to the Patriots and Washington: B.
by Smonze ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 7 picks
· 3 steals
· 1 reaches
The board owed the Patriots one, and it paid up: Malik Washington, the No. 158 name on the board, sitting there at pick 182 like a gift left on the doorstep. Good, not great, and the B says as much.
They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up. Every board in the league had Sinnott lower, and that gap is the story.
Add it up and it is a good, unfussy class.
Pick-by-Pick
A market-rate wide receiver, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Malik Nabers. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Nice patience on Kamren Kinchens, who had no business lasting to Round 2, Pick 2. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
They paid sticker price for Johnny Wilson in the 68th pick, and that is fine. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Blake Fisher in the 103rd overall pick is fair value, right on his grade. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They reached into another round for Ben Sinnott, and the board is nowhere close to agreeing. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
They robbed the room for Malik Washington here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
The board had Isaiah Davis higher than the Round 7 slot, and the running back fell to them anyway. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.