I think you're misunderstanding. I think what @DJnVa is saying is that if you don't draft a QB this year (assuming with the #3), then you have almost certainly traded down, and if you're doing that, you damned well better have gotten a first rounder for next year in that trade.
My first thought was: I hate this. Because neither of the two most important spots on the team (with the two biggest holes to fill) were addressed - QB and WR1. And you drafted two RBs?
Huh?
I’m likely more down on the Pats current roster than most. If the Vikings offered 11, 23, next year’s #1, and say a #2 in 2026 I’d take it. If it is 11, 23 and next year’s #1, I’d still think pretty hard about it. But I’m not sure that is realistic on the Vikings part. If they trade both #1s this year, they dont pick until the fourth round, #108. If they include next years #1, they wont pick until the third round (although they’ll likely have 3 third round picks next year due to comp picks). That makes the real cost of making that trade #1 and #2 for each of 2024 and 2025. That’s a “Draft Day” level of lost picks, and even though they have a pretty good roster now that puts them in a real bad spot 2-3 years down the road, and I’m not sure they are good enough to GFIN this year and next.
https://www.drafttek.com/NFL-Trade-Value-Chart-Rich-Hill.asp
I used DraftBuzz once. I swapped firsts with Buffalo (plus 2, a third, and futures), but they also added Dalton Knox
It would take some brassy ones to wait for the second round and hope no one gets QB happy above you...
I do find myself falling into a pattern, I love Maye at 3, if Sumataia is there at 34 I basically always take him, I like him more than the other OTs who make it there consistently, and I end up with Pearsall a ton at 68 if he makes it there.... of course that probably means Suamataia goes in the 20s and Pearsall in the 40s.
I could live with this draft. Would probably swap out one of the LBs with a developmental guard. Love the new picks being added. Start the pipeline.
This has 2 of my favorites.... And I still hate it. You can't have the #3 pick in a draft that is not only considered abnormally good but in particular abnormally good at the 3 positions you need most two of which are the hardest to get (LT and QB) and come out of it with zero 1st round talents in favor of punting to a future draft that is as of now unlikely to project any where near as good.
I like Leary better as a 7th. I think Milton goes undrafted, he just has nothing going for him but pure velocity
I would like this draft even if we couldn't trade down to get Maye and add Melton.
How can you like the draft if we don't get Maye and you don't know who goes in the #6 slot we acquired?
Milton is a fascinating case to me. Guy has it all. Cannon arm, great size, athletic, strong, pocket awareness, brains. He just has no freaking idea where the ball is going once he releases it. We should draft him and send him to Greenville.
I'm assuming he meant draft Maye at 3 so you don't get the CB and just live with the rest of the draft. If we come away with Maye, Pearsall, Johnny Wilson and Morgan sign me up. Pearsall has as high a floor as any WR outside the top 3 and Wilson has WR 1 upside with very little floor. A combo like that is exactly what I hope NE comes out of the draft with.
Hah. Good point. Might be the most important thing.
