With a laundry list of needs, who does the New England Patriots pick with at No. 23 overall?
Quarterback, linebacker and tight end are the most pressing positions of need, but NFL media’s Daniel Jeremiah believes the Patriots should go for a defensive end. Appearing on a conference call on Thursday, Jeremiah explained how Iowa’s A.J. Epenesa would be the perfect fit for Bill Belichick.
“For me it’s A.J. Epenesa,” Jeremiah said. “I went back and I’ve posted some of it, but I went back and looked at a lot of the notes that I had been given when I was with the Baltimore Ravens from one of our scouts who had been with Coach Belichick, and it was a presentation from 1991 on what Coach values at every position, and when it talked about edge rushers, it talked about his preference for size over speed out there and guys that can hold the point of attack in the run game and they can collapse the pocket, they’re power players, and that to me, if you’re drawing up a description of A.