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New England Patriots
The Patriots won the night they stopped Wiggins from sliding. Grade: A.
by Milk ·
2024 NFL Draft
· 8 picks
· 8 steals
· 0 reaches
This is the pick they will still be bragging about in July: Nate Wiggins, the No. 21 name on the board, stolen at the 103rd overall pick.
The phones were where this weekend was really won. They punted on edge rusher, and it is the miss that keeps the grade honest.
Bottom line, they left the weekend a clearly better team, and they earned every bit of it.
Pick-by-Pick
Value with a capital V on Marvin Harrison Jr. in pick 17, a genuine coup. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Amarius Mims in slot 68 is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. The roster fit checks out.
Taking Nate Wiggins in No. 103 is close to grand larceny; a cornerback that good had no business lasting this long. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Leonard Taylor III in the 137th pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
Cole Bishop at the 153rd overall pick is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Zak Zinter at the Round 6 slot is the steal of the weekend, a first-round talent at a bargain-bin price. A need, and now a little less of one.
They robbed the room for Jacob Cowing here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
They barely believed it either: Luke McCaffrey still on the board at pick No. 231. It answers the question that was keeping the coaches up at night.
