B-
New England Patriots
The Patriots cashed the board's mistake on Mafah: B-.
by bbp ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 9 picks
· 5 steals
· 1 reaches
The value of the weekend has a name and a slot: Phil Mafah, pick 219, roughly 52 picks past where he belonged.
The cost of the Webb reach is exactly the players who went right after him. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped edge rusher, which is a strange place to end up.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In slot 4 they get an anchor for the offensive line. A real need, handled.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Jalon Walker at the Round 2 slot is the proof. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Tate Ratledge in pick 69 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Fair-plus on Zy Alexander, a quiet win that adds up over a draft. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Savion Williams in Round 4, Pick 4 is a bargain the rest of the room will envy. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Malachi Moore in the 145th pick is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They robbed the room for Phil Mafah here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It patches a soft spot without any drama.
Clay Webb at pick No. 222 is the kind of overdraft that needs everything to break right. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Ja'Corey Brooks at pick 240 is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.