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Drake Maye Head Shot
PICK: 9 RND: 1 (NE)
Drake Maye
QB North Carolina
Troy Franklin Head Shot
PICK: 35 RND: 2 (NE)
Troy Franklin
WR Oregon
Christian Mahogany Head Shot
PICK: 67 RND: 3 (NE)
Christian Mahogany
OG Boston College
Nazir Stackhouse Head Shot
PICK: 103 RND: 4 (NE)
Nazir Stackhouse
DL Georgia
Junior Colson Head Shot
PICK: 120 RND: 4 (NE)
Junior Colson
LB Michigan
Theo Wease Head Shot
PICK: 137 RND: 5 (NE)
Theo Wease
WR Missouri
Ainias Smith Head Shot
PICK: 181 RND: 6 (NE)
Ainias Smith
WR Texas A&M
Ricky Pearsall Head Shot
PICK: 224 RND: 7 (NE)
Ricky Pearsall
WR Florida
Draft Picks Received
Drake Maye Head Shot
PICK: 9 RND: 1 (ATL)
Drake Maye
QB North Carolina
Junior Colson Head Shot
PICK: 120 RND: 4 (TB)
Junior Colson
LB Michigan
Theo Wease Head Shot
PICK: 137 RND: 5 (PHI)
Theo Wease
WR Missouri
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 1 (ATL)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 4 (DET)
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No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 6 (DET)
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Draft Picks Traded
Joe Alt Head Shot
PICK: 3 RND: 1 (ATL)
Joe Alt
OT Notre Dame
Isaiah Adams Head Shot
PICK: 140 RND: 5 (BAL)
Isaiah Adams
OT Illinois
No Pick Head Shot
PICK: RND: 2 (MIA)
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Players Gained
Head Shot
Mark Andrews
TE
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Tyron Smith
OT
Head Shot
A.J. Terrell
CB
Players traded away
Head Shot
Jonathan Jones
CB
Head Shot
JuJu Smith-Schuster
WR
Head Shot
Kendrick Bourne
WR
Head Shot
Mac Jones
QB
Draft Grade — Patriots
Overall A-
ValueB NeedB TradesA+ FutureB+
A passer of the future in Maye, and a A-, for the Patriots.

After circling the position for what felt like forever, the Patriots committed. Drake Maye is the quarterback now, and the roster gets built to his timeline. This is how you run a draft, and the A- reflects it.

The Pearsall pick alone nudges the whole weekend up a notch. They robbed the room blind at the table, and it lifts the grade on its own.

The edge rusher hole is the one line item this class does not answer. Every board in the league had Mahogany lower, and that gap is the story.

The kind of weekend a front office frames and hangs on the wall.

Pick Analysis
Pick9 Rnd1 Drake Maye
In pick No. 9 they get the arm they will build around at fair value.
Pick35 Rnd2 Troy Franklin
Troy Franklin in slot 35 is exactly on the number, no argument either way. A must-fix position, and they treated it like one.
Pick67 Rnd3 Christian Mahogany
Value said wait; Christian Mahogany in No. 67 says they were not listening. It shores up a spot that genuinely needed the help.
Pick103 Rnd4 Nazir Stackhouse
They let Nazir Stackhouse come to them and pounced at pick 103. The one spot they could not leave alone, and did not.
Pick120 Rnd4 Junior Colson
They paid sticker price for Junior Colson in the Round 4 slot, and that is fine. A minor need, but a need all the same.
Pick137 Rnd5 Theo Wease
A tidy little value on Theo Wease in the 137th pick, a step better than break-even. This was priority one on the needs board, and now it is handled.
Pick181 Rnd6 Ainias Smith
They robbed the room for Ainias Smith here, a fall nobody at the table saw coming. Better still, it is exactly the hole they had to fill.
Pick224 Rnd7 Ricky Pearsall
They barely believed it either: Ricky Pearsall still on the board at the 224th overall pick. It also answers one of the loudest questions on the roster.