B-
New England Patriots
A franchise passer in Daniels headlines a B- weekend for the Patriots.
by patricksiska ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 6 steals
· 1 reaches
After circling the position for what felt like forever, the Patriots committed. Jayden Daniels is the quarterback now, and the roster gets built to his timeline. Call it a sensible B-, earned the boring way.
If one pick saves this weekend, it is Taylor-Demerson. A whole weekend of picks and edge rusher is somehow still a want.
Good work on the whole, with edge rusher the one box left unchecked.
Pick-by-Pick
In the Round 1 slot they get the face of the franchise. A real need, handled.
Good things come to war rooms that wait, and Graham Barton at No. 34 is the proof. A sensible fit for a spot that needed help.
Value with a capital V on Kingsley Suamataia in Round 3, Pick 4, a genuine coup. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
They stopped a slide they were happy to see, landing Dadrion Taylor-Demerson in pick No. 103. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Jalyx Hunt in the 137th overall pick is the kind of reach that only looks good if he outplays it. Hard to map this one onto the depth chart at all.
A quiet steal in pick 180: Kamal Hadden for less than the market said. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Nice patience on Tip Reiman, who had no business lasting to slot 193. The roster fit checks out.
The board had JD Bertrand higher than the 231st pick, and the linebacker fell to them anyway. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.