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The 2026 NFL Draft is in the books. All 32 teams will have hoped to have left the draft with a new, improved roster and ready to take it to camp. The Patriots entered the draft with 11 picks and finished with 9. Moving around the board, the team even acquired a 7th-round pick for 2027 from the Vikings. I’ve struggled with how I want to grade this class. I see a pathway for everyone we selected, I see areas of our roster improving. This is not the sexy star-studded class we took last year. Not...

With the 28th pick in the NFL Draft, the New England Patriots select: Caleb Lomu. Tackle out of Utah 6’6 313 lbs w/ 33 3/8 inch arm length. 9 1/2 inch hands. 4.99 40 time w/ a 1.74 10 yard split. When the Patriots selected Lomu, I was not jumping for joy. I wasn’t screaming at the top of my lungs excited. I had even previously said not even 10 minutes before, as the board was winding down and talking available tackles “I don’t see him coming to us, and that I didn’t think he would be a fit.”...

The 2026 draft class has been overshadowed by the looming 2027 class for long enough. For the last 3 years, it’s all anyone wants to compare classes to. 2027 this, 2027 that. We get it… it’s said to be an elite class, star-studded, blue chips galore, and even experts fail to truly talk about a lot of the great talent throughout THIS draft. Instead, it’s just more comments that devalue these current prospects. It’s not fair, and frankly, it’s kind of lazy. The class that’s here is the class we...