PATRIOTS MOCK DRAFT GRADE C+

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New England Patriots

The phones sank the Patriots this weekend: C+.

by Yves · 2025 NFL Draft · 11 picks · 5 steals · 3 reaches
Value B
Need B
Trades F
Future A+

You can hear the double-takes from here. The Patriots took Nick Nash at No. 142, roughly 118 spots before his name belonged.

On value alone, Perkins Jr. makes the weekend a net positive. The trades bled value they could not afford to lose.

They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up. The future picks help the war chest more than the win-now roster.

In the end, a coin-flip class: fine today, with a wide range of outcomes ahead.

Pick-by-Pick

R2.8 · Pick 40 · Jalon Walker · LB · rank 27
Nice patience on Jalon Walker, who had no business lasting to pick 40. A quiet depth add at a thin-ish spot.
R2.11 · Pick 43 · Tyler Booker · OG · rank 38
Tyler Booker in the 43rd pick is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R2.13 · Pick 45 · Shemar Stewart · DL · rank 51
A market-rate interior defensive lineman, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Shemar Stewart. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
R3.7 · Pick 71 · Xavier Watts · S · rank 49
Xavier Watts in the 71st overall pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R3.13 · Pick 77 · Colston Loveland · TE · rank 48
You do not let a tight end like Colston Loveland reach No. 77 and blink. They did not. A real hole, addressed with a reasonable pick.
R3.17 · Pick 81 · Donovan Jackson · OG · rank 90
They liked Donovan Jackson enough to skip the value, taking him in Round 3, Pick 17. The roster fit checks out.
R4.6 · Pick 107 · Jason Marshall Jr. · CB · rank 136
Jason Marshall Jr. at slot 107 is a steep price for a hunch, hard to square with any board. Useful depth more than a marquee fix.
R5.4 · Pick 142 · Nick Nash · QB · rank 260
The board screamed and they did not listen, reaching into the next round for Nick Nash. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R7.5 · Pick 219 · Ollie Gordon II · RB · rank 172
Ollie Gordon II at the Round 7 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. A sensible fit that makes the depth chart a little sturdier.
R7.8 · Pick 222 · Jonah Monheim · C · rank 219
They did well to land Jonah Monheim in Round 7, Pick 8, just ahead of his grade. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
R7.22 · Pick 236 · Harold Perkins Jr. · LB · rank 133
Circle this one: Harold Perkins Jr. at the 236th overall pick is a fall that decides a draft. Insurance at a position that did not really ask for it.
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