B
New England Patriots
Nothing loud, just a tidy B for the Patriots.
by JCronan615 ·
2025 NFL Draft
· 6 picks
· 4 steals
· 1 reaches
There was a run on nobody at that position, and the Patriots started one anyway for Tosh Baker, 105 picks ahead of schedule.
The Hampton pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch. That safety hole did not close this weekend, and it was the biggest one on the wall.
Not a headline-grabber, but a perfectly good weekend's work.
Pick-by-Pick
A market-rate edge rusher, with the board and the slot shaking hands on Abdul Carter. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
A slide stopped in pick 38, with Walter Nolen worth more than the price. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
They robbed the room for Omarion Hampton here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
A tidy bit of business in No. 77, where Jalen Royals graded well above the range. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Dylan Fairchild slipping to the 105th overall pick is the kind of luck good rooms make for themselves. It fills a real need, too.
Tosh Baker in the 145th pick is a reach so steep the board needed a second look to believe it. A need, and now a little less of one.