Mel Kiper has Shane Ray at 4 in his latest big board. I'm a huge fan of Ray but I think that's a little high. Top 15 grade for me. Others of note include both Oklahoma OTs making it into the top 32 along with Clemmings (28) but Bud Dupree doesn't make it. Danny Shelton is at 15 and Dante Fowler(17) and Andrus Peat *(20) are slipping into tradeable range. Melvin Gordon is up to 13 and Abdullah sneaks into the back of the top 32 at 31.
The good news for the Pats is that this draft is very, very deep at their 3 biggest positions of need: DL, OL, and RB, including (as always, depending on the junior declarations):
- DL: Leonard Williams, Randy Gregory, Shawn Oakman, Shane Ray, Dante Fowler, Shilique Calhoun, Alvin Dupree, Vic Beasley, Arik Armstead, Lorenzo Mauldin, Markus Goldston, Hauoli Kikaha, Mario Edwards, Eddie Goldman, Danny Shelton, Michael Bennett, Ellis McCarthy, Carl Davis
- OL: Cedric Ogbuehi, Brandon Scherff, Andrus Peat, Landon Collins, Spencer Drango, Ty Sambrailo, TJ Clemmings, Cam Erving, Jake Fisher, Eric Flowers, AJ Cann, Josue Matias, Arie Kouandjio, Laken Tomlinson
- RB: Todd Gurley, Melvin Gordon, Ameer Abdullah, TJ Yeldon, Mike Davis, Duke Johnson, Tevin Coleman, Jay Ajayi, Karlos Williams, Jeremy Langford, Josh Robinson
The rankings will be all over the place, and will go up and down between now and the draft. But I think there's a good chance that BB can find 3 solid talents from that group.
