With the biggest free agency and trade moves (likely) in the books, it’s time to shift focus more fully toward what the Patriots will do in the first round of the NFL Draft at the end of the month.
Naturally, speculation abounds about what the Patriots could do, from taking a star wide receiver like Jameson Williams with the No. 21 overall pick to drafting Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean or searching out the team’s next shutdown corner.
In the end, there’s no concrete notion of what New England will do with their first-round pick as well as how that could inform the rest of their draft.