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Harry's ability to body-up opponents and win with ball skills is undeniable, but his inability to find a threatening top gear or shake loose from tight man coverage must be accounted for within his new employer's scheme.
That's a problem and it's not a minor one.
Breer:
Where most teams had draft meetings with their scouts in February and April, the Patriots would have theirs with scouts in December and February. And at that early point, it’s tough to set the board, with two and a half months of information still to come. So from there on, the scouts would just be gatherers, which frustrated plenty of them, and played into the exodus in the scouting department the last few years. It also, as some saw it, led to misses like N’Keal Harry in 2019. Harry killed his 30 visit that spring and had a college coach, Todd Graham, who was close to Belichick. In that end, without more input from scouts who preferred Deebo Samuel and A.J. Brown, the coach wound up leaning on his own experience with Harry, rather than the red flags his scouts planted, and lost a golden opportunity to fill a hole on his roster.
That was my point. Bad pick not just because of the glaring red flag - he couldn't separate - but because he didn't listen to his scouts.
Mac Jones was not a bad pick when it was made. It just didn't work out here for him. Looking back I would have liked to see them try to move up for Parsons and then move back into the first or high second round if they could for Jones if he was still there.