When it comes to the Patriots and the NFL draft, there’s always one very important disclaimer: Nobody has any real idea what Bill Belichick will do on draft night.
Now that we’ve got that out of the way, though, it’s certainly easy to see a few potential paths for the Patriots to take in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft.
New England currently owns the 21st pick in the first round, and a lot of what it does will come down two things: The first is whether the Patriots even keep the pick given their propensity for trading down, and the second is what happens in the picks that precede New England.