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Per Reiss, the offensive starters were:
There are exactly 2 guys on that list who the Patriots acquired with higher than a 5th-round pick. And Mankins is playing hurt, not that you could tell from his performance yesterday.
The only other costly acquisitions I can think of who got use on offense were Vereen, Ridley and Amendola.
The defensive starters were:
4 of those guys were acquired with higher than a 4th-round pick. I think the only other somewhat costly guy in the rotation was Ryan.
By way of comparison, 4 very successful high picks who would have started are on IR (Gronk, Vollmer, Wilfork and Mayo), along with Spikes.
LT: Nate Solder
LG: Logan Mankins
C: Ryan Wendell
RG: Dan Connolly
RT: Marcus Cannon
TE: Michael Hoomanawanui
TE: Matthew Mulligan
QB: Tom Brady
RB: LeGarrette Blount
FB: James Develin
WR: Matthew Slater
There are exactly 2 guys on that list who the Patriots acquired with higher than a 5th-round pick. And Mankins is playing hurt, not that you could tell from his performance yesterday.
The only other costly acquisitions I can think of who got use on offense were Vereen, Ridley and Amendola.
The defensive starters were:
DE: Rob Ninkovich
DT: Sealver Siliga
DT: Chris Jones
DE: Chandler Jones
LB: Dont'a Hightower
LB: Dane Fletcher
LB: Jamie Collins
CB: Aqib Talib
CB: Alfonzo Dennard
S: Steve Gregory
S: Devin McCourty
4 of those guys were acquired with higher than a 4th-round pick. I think the only other somewhat costly guy in the rotation was Ryan.
By way of comparison, 4 very successful high picks who would have started are on IR (Gronk, Vollmer, Wilfork and Mayo), along with Spikes.