Day 2 of the NFL Draft is and the Patriots have picks 38 in the second and picks 69 and 77 in the third round. Expect the Patriots to be busy as they try to position themselves for the best players possible to fill immediate and long term needs.
Here is what you can expect tonight.
Top Needs: EDGE, IDL, WR, OT, RB, CB
Top options at each position of need
EDGE:
Donovan Ezeiruaku, Boston College, 6’2 248
Mike Green, Marshall, 6’3 251
Jack Sawyer, Ohio State, 6’4 260
Nic Scourton, Texas A&M, 6’2 257
Princely Umanmielen, 6’4 244, Ole Miss
JT Tuimoloau, 6’4 264, Ohio State
Oluwafemi Oladejo, 6’3 261, UCLA
Interior Defensive lineman
Shemar Turner, 6’3 290, Texas A&M
T.J Sanders, 6’3 305, South Carolina
Joshua Farmer, 6’3 305, Florida State
Omarr Norman-Lott, 6’1 303, Tennessee
Jordan Phillips, 6’1 313, Maryland
Alfred Collins, 6’5 332, Texas
Wide Receiver
Luther Burden, 6’0 206, Missouri
Jaylin Noel, 5’10 194, Iowa State
Jayden Higgins, 6’4 214, Iowa State
Jalen Royals, 6’0 205, Utah State
Tre Harris, 6’2 205, Ole Miss
Jack Bech, 6’1 214, TCU
Isaiah Bond, 5’10 185, Texas
Offensive Tackle
Ozzy Trapilo, 6’8 316, Boston College
Aireontae Ersery, 6’6 331, Minnesota
Charles Grant, 6’4 309 William & Mary
Anthony Belton, 6’6 336, N.C State
Chase Lundt, 6’7 303, UConn
Cameron Williams, 6’5 334, Texas
Cornerback
Will Johnson, 6’1 194, Michigan
Trey Amos, 6’0 195, Ole Miss
Azareye’h Thomas, 6’1 196, Florida State
Shavon Revel Jr. 6’1 202, East Carolina
Jacob Parrish, 5’9 191, Kansas State
Running Back
TreVeyon Henderson, 5’10 202, Ohio State
Quinshon Judkins, 5’11 221, Ohio State
Dylan Sampson, 5’8 199, Tennessee
Jordan James, 5’9 208, Oregon
RJ Harvey, 5’8 205, UCF
Bhayshul Tuten, 5’9 206, Virginia Tech
What could do the Patriots do?
-They will either go edge or wide receiver in Round 2. I have hard time believing that they will go to another position given their needs at those positions. The only outlier position, offensive tackle.
- The Patriots will take another offensive tackle and while it hard to see it being tonight, anything is possible. I still think they come out of this weekend with two offensive tackles.
-I expect the Patriots to be active tonight, I wouldn’t be surprised if they moved up. The top of the board right now has some high end talent.
-Running back is a position that the Patriots could address tonight. It is easy to think they take a back tomorrow, but I think their will be a run on backs tonight.
-Cornerback is another position to keep an eye on. You have a talented group of corners entering the night headlined by Johnson and Amos.