Patriots can jump-start their rebuild by trading down from No. 3 originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The best way for a bottom-feeding team to get good players? Force them to come. How do you do that? You draft them.
The Patriots are a bottom-feeder. If you don’t have a quarterback, left tackle or decent receivers but you DO have the No. 3 overall pick, that makes you a bottom-feeder.
This week has been a referendum on how hard it is for an unimposing team to build through free agency.