EXPERT: Phil Perry, NBC Sports activities Boston
LAST UPDATED: April 2, 2025
NOTE: Perry tasks the Patriots buying and selling right down to the ninth choose with the Saints.
Perry’s Evaluation:
“Each Campbell and Membou fly off the board within the two picks earlier than Mike Vrabel and the Patriots are on the clock. Membou goes to the Jets at No. 7 and Campbell goes to the Panthers at No. 8. That leaves the Patriots to take the participant they view as probably the most impactful at No. 9: Penn State’s Tyler Warren, who Vrabel referred to as a “fantastic” prospect at this 12 months’s league conferences. Warren can do all of it from the tight finish place. He aligned on the tip of the road and within the slot for the Nittany Lions. He additionally performed some Wildcat quarterback, racking up over 200 speeding yards to associate with his whopping 1,233 yards receiving. His 1,451 scrimmage yards are most by a good finish in Energy Convention historical past.”
NOTE: Perry additionally tasks the Patriots buying and selling again into the primary spherical buying the seventeenth choose from the Bengals.
Perry’s Evaluation:
“With the highest two tackles off the board at No. 9 general, the Patriots do not need to wait till choose No. 38 to attempt to get their left deal with of the longer term. They package deal collectively their second-rounder (No. 38) with the second they only acquired from New Orleans (No. 40) to maneuver all the way in which as much as No. 17, getting a fourth-rounder from the Bengals within the course of. That huge swing permits them to seize the participant who would possibly’ve been the primary deal with of the board on this 12 months’s draft had he not been damage: Josh Simmons. A easy athlete whose agility belies his 6-foot-5, 317-pound body, Simmons is taken into account to have improved considerably since starting his profession at San Diego State.”
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