DRAFT DAY DISCUSSION 2026 NFL Draft Day 3

[manxman2601]

So who do you want?

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

McCoy

 

[manxman2601]

Some positional need fixes.

Luxury Pick

Keionte Scott, CB/S, Miami

Safety

Zakee Wheatley, Penn St
VJ Payne, Kansas St
Cole Wisniewski, Texas Tech

LB

Jimmy Rolder, Michigan
Kyle Louis, Pitt
Justin Jefferson, Alabama
Keyshaun Elliott, Arizona st

Slot WR

Cyrus Allen, Cincinnati
Eli Heidenreich, Navy

RB

Mike Washington Jr, Arkansas
Adam Randall, Clemson

DT

Kaleb Proctor
Plus many more

EDGE

Dani Dennis-Sutton, Penn
Trey Moore, Texas
George Gumbs, Florida

CB

Charles Demmings, SFA
Devin Moore, florida

 

[imahobgoblin]

Adam Randall
Jeff Caldwell
Eli Heidenreich

 

[manxman2601]

McCoy

Crazy that he's still there. And the fact that he is scares me right off him.

 

[manxman2601]

A longer list for you.

 

[BobDigital]

I am not going to talk about top of the 4th round guys. Unless we trade Boutte... which i don't want to do for just a 4th... We can't possibly pick till 120 at the earliest.

My binkies from late 4th to later..

Eli Heidenreich - RB/WR(3rd down back/part time slot/joker) - He is seen as a 5th at most... but typically no higher than 6th. I don't think anyone pulls the trigger in the 4th. I see him as Cordarrelle Patterson type player. A little smaller but quicker because of it. Also much more of a natural WR. If he ever gets an LB on him he is gone. He had almost 1000 receiving yards last year alone. He runs route trees. Line that up in the back field and let them to go small vs your jumbo package if they dare... or go big and risk an LB vs basically a WR. His down side is he can't carry a full load. Purely a change of pace guy.

Nadame Tucker - EDGE - Tucker has a lot of problems. One being he is old will enter the year at 26. He is also a bit undersized at only 250 for a full time gig. But if you get pass round 4 his many benefits jump off the screen at you. One is for a guy who is clearly going to be more of a pass rush specialist... he is pretty big at 250lbs. Most of them are 240. So that bit of heft allows a little more power and you don't need to worry about him getting run over on a 3rd and 5 as much. He also sometimes plays out of control due to just rushing to get to the QB.. And there is the question of how he would look vs better talent... still in the 6th or so i'd happy take a shot and look past it.

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Crazy that he's still there. And the fact that he is scares me right off him.

By the time we pick in r5 if he’s on the board the potential reward is worth the draft capital.

 

[manxman2601]

30 visits and reported interests.

QB

Jalon Daniels
Behren Morton
Athan Kaliakmanis

RB

Adam Randall
Mike Washington (no 30 visit but plenty of pro day/combine interest)

WR

Cyrus Allen

OL

Travis Burke
Jeremiah Wright

EDGE

George Gumbs Jr
Trey Moore (no reported contact but Tony Pauline said Patriots have shown a lot of interest)

LB

Khalil Jacobs
Keyshaun Elliott

CB

Karon Prunty

S

Zakee Wheatley
Malik Spencer

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

RB:
Washington
Singleton
Randall

TE:
Gyllenborg
Koziol
Villari

WR:
Burks
Lance
Allen
Hiendrich
Caldwell

DB:
McCoy (worth a swing at this point)
Scott
Wheatly
Payne
Demmings
Prysock

LB:
Orr
Louis
Rolder
Kelly

Edge:
DDS
Gumbs
Tucker

DT:
Van deBerg
Proctor
Halton
Capehart
Gill-Howard


OT:
Burke
Crownover

OG:
Farmer
Schrauth
Wright
Morris

QB:
Payton
Green

I'm sure there's many more......

 

[BobDigital]

Current Patriots picks.

5th - 171 (23)
6th - 191 198 212 (15, 14, 10)
7th - 247 (1)

It seems unlikely the Pats wait 71 picks to make a move. They will probably move up a bit. For instance just combining 171 and any of their other 3 6th rounders puts them 136-146 and that is if they only combine one... if they bottle 2 they can go higher. If they are determined to keep 171... 191 + 198 would put them at 155.

So yes. I see them picking long before 171. Either low 4th or high 5th.

 

[rads2005]

By the draft chart value chart, the Pats could trade every remaining pick and get pick 120 or so back. There's probably no one worth doing that for except Jermod McCoy though. I assume there are lotto picks the Pats like and special teams needs they want filled.

 

[BobDigital]

My ideal mock.

138 (171+198) - VJ Payne - S - His RAS is off the charts. Still relatively young. A bit Raw. The perfect sit for a year and learn behind a former all pro kind of prospect. I know some think this is high for him. But his RAS and upside beg to be drafted here.
191 - Eli Hiendrich - RB/WR/3rd down RB/Slot - YEP. He helps the RB and WR room. We need another RB option and he offers a change of pace specialist we have been missing and fits so well with our jumbo packages.
212 - Kaleb Proctor - DT - He is that small interior pass rusher for pass rushing downs we don't have. The meassurables here are very good.
247 - Nadame Tucker - EDGE - A good guy to take a shot on.

The only issue with this is you leave the draft without an LB.

 

[BobDigital]

Predictions

Before we are done tomorrow RB will be addressed to some degree. They didn't add Hill Gilliam and Raridon(a guy who blocks too) only to scoop up free agent RBs. They plan to leave with a guy with a draft grade not a FA grade.

This entire off season has been about forward thinking... future RT, future TE, Doubs for when Boutte comes up at WR, 2 spots which have not been addressed with this in mind... G and DB. I think at least one if not both gets looked into.

 

[Clonamery]

By the draft chart value chart, the Pats could trade every remaining pick and get pick 120 or so back. There's probably no one worth doing that for except Jermod McCoy though. I assume there are lotto picks the Pats like and special teams needs they want filled.

Dallas has 2 picks 112 & 114....if he gets by those then who knows. They need a CB.

 

[OldEngland]

Crazy that he's still there. And the fact that he is scares me right off him.

There are rumours that during the ACL surgery, they also had to repair a piece of cartilage, and that there is an issue with a bone plug used on that repair. The concerns are it needs a second surgery.

There are a few different types of meniscal and cartilage surgeries. Meniscal surgery can be a pretty quick recovery when you are just trimming bits of the meniscus itself; but once you start messing around with osteochrondal drilling and bone plugs etc to fix an issue with the cartilage, you have to wait for all that to heal before you can really get started on rehab. Rehab protocol wise, osteochrondal drilling is like 4 months+ before return to sport and osteochrondral autografts (bone plugs) can be 6, 8 or 12 months depending on the sport and progress. The surgery is normally pretty successful in the end though.

I obviously do not know the details of McCoy specifically, so a heafty grain of salt is needed. But *if* he needed a second surgery you *could* be looking at him missing all or at least a significant part of his rookie year. That be 2 years out in a row.

Where do you put the value on that?

 

[Betterthanmost]

We have no fourth rounder? Any serviceable ILB left?

 

[Clonamery]

We have no fourth rounder? Any serviceable ILB left?

Rolder. Elliott.

 

[Uptown]

RB- Adam Randall, Heidenreich

G - Micah Morris, Farmer

T - Travis Burke

WR- Cyrus Allen, Jeff Caldwell, Lance

LB- Louis, Orr, Murdock, Kelly

EDGE- Tucker, DDS

TE- Villari, Koziol

ST - Eric Gentry


CB Jermod McCoy!!
DB Keionte Scott
RB Mike Washington Jr.
DB Jalon Kilgore
WR Skyler Bell
WR Elijah Sarratt
CB Keith Abney II
C Sam Hecht
WR Deion Burks
S Zakee Wheatley
OT Dametrious Crownover
QB Garrett Nussmeier

 

[Uptown]

A healthy McCoy would probably be the best CB in this draft; however, that isn’t the case. I hope he can play; though it would probably be another Jason Verrett scenario. An extremely talented player whose body has failed him. Sucks for the kid. Worse how far he slips; as I’d be down to scoop him depending on where he falls & we’ve managed to fill other team needs.