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Draft Selections
Anthony Hill Jr. Head Shot
PICK: 63 RND: 2 (NE)
Anthony Hill Jr.
LB Texas
Domonique Orange Head Shot
PICK: 70 RND: 3 (NE)
Domonique Orange
DT Iowa State
Malachi Fields Head Shot
PICK: 95 RND: 3 (NE)
Malachi Fields
WR Notre Dame
Mikail Kamara Head Shot
PICK: 125 RND: 4 (NE)
Mikail Kamara
DE-EDGE Indiana
Joe Royer Head Shot
PICK: 131 RND: 4 (NE)
Joe Royer
TE Cincinnati
Ephesians Prysock Head Shot
PICK: 191 RND: 6 (NE)
Ephesians Prysock
CB Washington
Eric O'Neill Head Shot
PICK: 198 RND: 6 (NE)
Eric O'Neill
DE-EDGE Rutgers
Cole Payton Head Shot
PICK: 202 RND: 6 (NE)
Cole Payton
QB North Dakota State
Trey Zuhn III Head Shot
PICK: 247 RND: 7 (NE)
Trey Zuhn III
OT Texas A&M
Draft Picks Received
Domonique Orange Head Shot
PICK: 70 RND: 3 (CLE)
Domonique Orange
DT Iowa State
Draft Picks Traded
Denzel Boston Head Shot
PICK: 31 RND: 1 (CLE)
Denzel Boston
WR Washington
Louis Moore Head Shot
PICK: 171 RND: 5 (CLE)
Louis Moore
S Indiana
Dae'Quan Wright Head Shot
PICK: 212 RND: 6 (ARI)
Dae'Quan Wright
TE Ole Miss
Players Gained
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Elgton Jenkins
OG
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Roy Lopez
DT
Draft Grade — Patriots
Overall B+
ValueB- NeedB TradesA+ FutureB-
Nobody dealt better than the Patriots this weekend: B+.

The Patriots clearly saw something nobody else did in Eric O'Neill, taking him 59 picks ahead of his grade. The board is not convinced. They moved the roster forward and banked a B+ for it.

The trade ledger is the best part of the whole weekend. Hill Jr. falling to them is the kind of break a good board is built to catch. For all the activity, safety went untouched, which is hard to explain.

The imported veterans give this class a floor the draft picks could not on their own.

A tidy weekend of work that should hold up just fine.

Pick Analysis
Pick63 Rnd2 Anthony Hill Jr.
Taking Anthony Hill Jr. in pick 63 is close to grand larceny; a linebacker that good had no business lasting this long. It thickens a room that could stand to be thicker.
Pick70 Rnd3 Domonique Orange
Domonique Orange in No. 70 is fair value, right on his grade. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick95 Rnd3 Malachi Fields
They barely believed it either: Malachi Fields still on the board at pick No. 95. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.
Pick125 Rnd4 Mikail Kamara
A swing that ignored the value entirely, Mikail Kamara well ahead of where he belonged. That was the need underlined and circled, and now it is checked off.
Pick131 Rnd4 Joe Royer
Joe Royer in the 131st pick is fine work, a shade of surplus and no downside. The roster fit checks out.
Pick191 Rnd6 Ephesians Prysock
Ephesians Prysock in Round 6, Pick 10 lands just on the right side of the ledger. Not urgent, but hardly pointless.
Pick198 Rnd6 Eric O'Neill
They talked themselves into Eric O'Neill at Round 6, Pick 17, and the board did not agree. The biggest hole on the depth chart just got a whole lot smaller.
Pick202 Rnd6 Cole Payton
They let Cole Payton come to them and pounced at the Round 6 slot. Another box on the needs board, quietly ticked.
Pick247 Rnd7 Trey Zuhn III
Trey Zuhn III at the 247th overall pick is a sound buy, the sort that quietly helps a class. One more legitimate question on the roster, answered.