For as egregious a miss as the Dominique Easley draft pick looked like when he was released in 2016, once the (alleged) details started coming out, the release looked like one of those deals where the logical reaction was “Oh my god, I can’t believe this didn’t happen sooner”.
Put another way, even if you take Easley’s considerable inability to stay on the field with a grain of salt, once the details started coming out, whether it was (allegedly) skipping training appointments or getting sued for (allegedly) letting his dogs bite people, or (allegedly) partying in Vegas instead of going with the team to the Super Bowl, the Patriots would have been more than within their rights to release this as their official press statement when they released him after only two seasons:
All that is to say, when N’Keal Harry’s agent went public about working with the New England Patriots on a trade last week, in a complete reversal of the Easley release, the only logical conclusion is, “There are no winners here.