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javajunky said:
I just spent five minutes rewatching his feet in the mirror. I wouldn't bet against Caleb Lomu at LT and Will Campbell at RT in 2027. Your best pass protector belongs at left tackle, not necessarily your best overall lineman
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I feel like we got Fleeced last year with Campbell @ Four. Which shows the Tackle class was very weak last Year. Lomu looks more athletic than Will Campbell.
 
javajunky said:
I just spent five minutes rewatching his feet in the mirror. I wouldn't bet against Caleb Lomu at LT and Will Campbell at RT in 2027. Your best pass protector belongs at left tackle, not necessarily your best overall lineman
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Is he tough? How are his hands? Can he start Day 1 or what's the timeframe?
 
One-If-By-Sea said:
Either we got fleeced last year or got a super great bargain this year. Is the glass half full of half empty?
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Vrabel and company are so much better than BB Drafting. They don't Draft draft 7th Rounders in the Second.
 
Water Boy said:
Doesn't mean he can either. It's an unknown and a risk. They say the transition is easier for college players than nfl veterans, but not all players thrive moving to the opposite side.
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Except, he has. On a limited basis.
 
javajunky said:
I think Lomu has better feet and balance in space; Campbell is an all-pro in everything else.
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Lomu's footwork and mirroring are his strength. He has better length can Campbell, and a wider frame and broader base.

Campbell knocks the intangibles out of the park, and is a very smart player.
 
Defensible, but less of a sure thing than you expect in a first rounder, even when your pick is at the tail end of it. I don't follow college football at all: just too corrupt and corrupting for my perhaps overprecious sensibilities, so I can't be sure, but I find it hard to believe that there was not a better prospect available at one of our other positions of need. This is, it seems to me, an instance of drafting for need, and I think that the fact there is so little certainty that this player will really fill that need is at least a little worrisome. I'm not gonna complain about it: I'll hope for the best, root for the old home team's greater wisdom, but I'm not sure I expect it, the best, that is.

Does the guy look a little squishy to you? He kinda does to me. His numbers in the various drills are pretty impressive, though, so maybe that's a false impression. Some fat guys are surprisingly athletic. When I was in college, there was a fat guy on our basketball team, a friend of mine. He looked like he belonged in the stands, stuffing down fried dough. His last name was Ball. They called him The Wrecking Ball, because when he drove to the basket, which was pretty much all he did, that's what he looked like. It sort of looked more like bowling with human beings than an exhibition of the fine art of basketball. He started both his junior and senior years. Several of his more gazelle-like teammates rode the pine.
 
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Rdforty2 said:
Campbell wouldve been the top OT taken in this draft as well.
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Stumpy never, Ever, EVAH should've been taken ahead of Kelvin Banks. The last game of last season closed that case Permanently.
 
mayoclinic said:
I thought this was interesting:

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A very interesting pattern to note for future years. Behren Morton is also in a relationship.

I looked back at the 2025 class, as this kind of information is often more public once they are in the nfl.
Disclaimer: This is a very quick AI search, apologies if anything is inaccurate or out of date.

Will Campbell – girlfriend;
TreVeyon Henderson – Married rookie year;
Kyle Williams – had a girlfriend at time of draft, but not now;
Jared Wilson – engaged;
Craig Woodson – engaged in his rookie year
Joshua Farmer – engaged in his rookie year;
Bradyn Swinson - no information found;
Andres Borregales - married in 2025;
Marcus Bryant – engaged in his rookie year;
Julian Ashby - girlfriend;
Kobee Minor – engaged March 26.

There is definitely a pattern of drafting young men, who are married, engaged, or ready for commitment here.
However, I can't see any data on how many draft prospects or rookies are married, so there is no baseline group to compare it to, so we can't really determine if the Patriots are drafting more of these type of prospects or not. Definitely worth considering through.

Also:
I missed it, but Joshua Farmer and Marcus Bryant announced their engagements the same weekend, and the joke on social media was it looked like they got engaged to each other.

NFL World Erupts with the Same Reaction After Patriots Teammates Joshua Farmer and Marcus Bryant Got Engaged This Weekend - The Red Zone

Fans definitely needed to read that again.
theredzone.org
 
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