Patriots 2024 Draft Class Review: Return of the Offense? 

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The big mistake was in drafting Drake Maye instead of trading down (and then trading down with one of the extra picks) in order to get more picks. Once you selected Maye instead of trading down for additional picks, you were, basically, paralyzed and committed to a "stick and pick" approach for the rest of the draft because you had insufficient ammo to move up. The results of that "stick and pick" approach we see here. The Pats ended up missing the runs on WR, OL, TE and RB and settled for the best of the rest in every case. Polk is not as good as the players taken right before him, and the same is true of the two offensive linemen the Pats took. It ended up looking like a massive waste of your early pick status. What we have here is a high floor/low ceiling bunch with a couple of flyers at the end. You had a choice of Maye and these 7 players OR no Maye and 10-11 BETTER players in every instance. I think that the latter would have been the better strategy. If Maye is Justin Herbert, then it's worth it. If Maye is closer to Sam Darnold, which is what I think you're going to get with him, then this draft gets an "F." If Maye isn't great, you've taken the massive asset of choosing third in every round of the draft, and turned it into the least possible value you could get from it, condemned yourself to mediocrity for the next five years, and the rest of the league thanks you. On top of that, the Pats' UDFA class seems among the weakest in the league as well, although Charles Turner is a good signing and will probably make the team. From my point of view, Eliot Wolf struck out over and over throughout this process.

Another 4 wins