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It’s impossible to know whether or not the newest Patriots receiver Javon Baker – the team’s 110th overall pick out of UCF – will be a future No. 1, but he certainly sounds like it.

It’s been a long time since New England had a receiver with as much confidence and swagger as Baker, who was asked to describe his game to fans on a Zoom call minutes after being selected.

“Come to the home stadium and bring your popcorn,” he said, sounding like another superstar receiver from the past, Terrell Owens. “That’s all I can tell you all. Bring your popcorn…I make people in wheelchairs stand up.”

Prior to speaking with the local media, Baker had a video on his Instagram page reacting to the pick, saying it took way too long and that ‘everybody’s finna pay.”

He talked about always having a chip on his shoulder, with this just adding to it.

“There’s always going to be a chip on my shoulder,” he said. “I’m self driven…I know what it’s like to be at the bottom of the depth chart.”

He hasn’t even landed in Foxborough yet, but Baker has already endeared himself to the fan base and is unquestionably the ‘swaggiest’ guy in that entire room with a crap ton of confidence. It’s an alpha in the receiver group that this team hasn’t had since Randy Moss, and even that was the back nine of Randy’s career.

Seven picks before Baker, the Patriots took Texas A&M guard Layden Robinson.

Robinson is a versatile player who can move around the line and provides some insurance if Cole Strange is still injured or just ultimately not playing up to the standard the team needs him to play at.

“It was a blessing in disguise and it couldn’t have come from a better place,” Robinson said when asked about getting the call that he’d be a Patriot. Culture has been the theme all offseason and it feels like Robinson is going to fit in just fine with his new teammates.

“I’m a grinder, it’s been instilled in me for years,” he added. “Just go in there, be tough, be gritty and go after people over and over again.”

This makes five straight offensive players to open the draft for New England, further proof that the Bill belichick wya of doing things is officially dead and buried around Gillette Stadium.