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Best value of the weekend goes to the Patriots for Nolen: A-.

by Rob · 2025 NFL Draft · 10 picks · 10 steals · 0 reaches
Value A
Need B
Trades A+
Future B-

You build a draft on nights like this. Walter Nolen had no business being available in the Round 7 slot, and the Patriots did the only sane thing and turned in the card. The sum of the weekend is a deserved A-.

The dealing alone would carry a lesser class. They covered a lot of ground and still skipped quarterback, which is a strange place to end up.

The George Pickens deal gives the class an established piece to lean on. Edge rusher is handled and the depth chart looks a good deal healthier for it.

Add it up and this is about as clean as a draft weekend gets.

Pick-by-Pick

R1.14 · Pick 14 · Will Campbell · OT · rank 6
In Round 1, Pick 14 they get a blindside protector, outstanding value to boot. A real need, handled.
R1.26 · Pick 26 · Kelvin Banks Jr. · OT · rank 8
Kelvin Banks Jr. in the 26th overall pick should not have been possible, and that is the whole point. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
R2.2 · Pick 34 · Malaki Starks · S · rank 16
Steal is underselling it; Malaki Starks at the 34th pick is a heist with the alarm still ringing. They walked in needing this and walked out with it.
R2.14 · Pick 46 · Colston Loveland · TE · rank 19
Taking Colston Loveland in slot 46 is close to grand larceny; a tight end that good had no business lasting this long. A need, and now a little less of one.
R2.26 · Pick 58 · Quinshon Judkins · RB · rank 25
Quinshon Judkins in the Round 2 slot is the kind of fall that makes a whole class. It plugs a real leak on the depth chart.
R3.2 · Pick 66 · Harold Perkins Jr. · LB · rank 14
They robbed the room for Harold Perkins Jr. here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
R3.26 · Pick 90 · Ashton Gillotte · DL-EDGE · rank 46
Ashton Gillotte in pick 90 is a gift, value that borders on unfair. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
R3.27 · Pick 91 · Mitchell Evans · TE · rank 49
Mitchell Evans at pick No. 91 is a first-round grade at a bargain-bin price, no notes. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.
R5.18 · Pick 146 · Tre Harris · WR · rank 44
Tre Harris at the Round 5 slot is daylight robbery; nobody expected him to last. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
R7.4 · Pick 196 · Walter Nolen · DL · rank 42
They will replay Walter Nolen at the 196th pick for years; that is how good the value is. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
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