Belichick's final gift to Patriots may have cost them a franchise QB originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Bill Belichick won 296 games with the Patriots. If only he had stopped at 295.
For all of the bits, bytes, pixels, and pages devoted to the different ways the Patriots could use the No. 3 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, they still find themselves at the mercy of others – specifically, the Washington Commanders.
That's because Washington "won" a tiebreaker with their fellow 4-13 finishers for the second pick.