Bill B.

When we got Belichick from the Jets, they got the Patriots first round draft pick. Does anyone remember who the Jets got with that pick? Ten years later it seems like one of the best uses of a first round draft pick for the Patriots. Doubt it worked out for the Jets.

aurakilla

i think it was shaun ellis

BelichickFan

Believe it or not they had four #1s that year :

Shaun Ellis
John Abraham
Chad Pennington
Anthony Becht

DraftHistory.com

Ellis and Becht were from the Keyshawn Johnson trade.

Ron Sellers

How Exactly Will History Judge Parcells? (Pt 3)

Jets traded up from that spot and ended up drafting DE Shaun Ellis.

2000 NFL Draft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A lot of familiar names, in both good and bad ways from that draft.

2000 NFL Draft History - Round 1 | 2000 NFL Draft | NFL Draft History

italia44

Quarterback Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from WingNut Univ.

Horace Ivory

The Jets traded our pick to the Niners to move up to select Shaun Ellis @ 12
With our original pick (#16) the Niners selected Julian Peterson.

Jets had 4 first rounders that year, they got Ellis @ 12, John Abraham @ 13, Chad Pennington @ 18 and Anthony Becht @ 27.

With the 199th pick in that draft we got a guy named Brady.

We sent our 1st pick in '00, 4th and 7th picks in '01 to the Jets.
We got BB, the Jets 5th in '01 & 7th in 02.

I think BB was worth it.

BradfordPatsFan

BB and the guy picked at 199 make that draft an A++.

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WelshPat

Ellis, Abraham and Pennington, thats pretty damn good (though you should do good with 4 1st round picks)

MoLewisrocks

Yet oddly it didn't do a damn thing for the JETS... Hasn't in 42 years. They alienated Abraham to the point he refused to play for them after they went through yet another HC/FO change and lied to him (after tagging him in 2005), and they basically ground old Noodle Arm into dust (while screwing him financially in the process). SOJ - it doesn't matter who they draft, sign in FA or hail as their new HC. Bob Kraft clearly made the best trade of the pre BB era... Possibly the best trade (from a value standpoint) in the Salary Cap era...if not ever.

Palm Beach Pats Fan

The best use of a 1st round draft pick in franchise history?

1) Bill Belichick
2) John Hannah
3) Vince Wilfork
4) Ty Law
5) Richard Seymour
6) Jarod Mayo -- likely to go up
7) Bruce Armstrong
8) Logan Mankins
9) Stanley Morgan
10) Devin McCourty-- likely to go up

others of note: Willie McGinest, Raymond Clayborn, Sam Cunningham, Irving Fryar

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