Worst Pats draft class?

[ctpatsfan77]

This came up over on Reddit, so: what would you say is the worst draft class? I'll let you decide what constitutes worst; the only rule is you have to consider the entire Pats draft class. No cherry picking, say, "2024 minus Drake."

 

[mayoclinic]

2017.

 

[bakes781]

2019

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

2024 minus Drake

 

[jmt57]

I'm going back further than most will remember, but 1970 has to rate as the worst.

Only one player, Dennis Wirgowski, ever started for the Pats - for all of three seasons, on bad teams.


1985 and 1997 were runnerups.

Some consider 2007 to be bad, but I don't when you look at the big picture - in other words, what the Patriots did with that draft capital (trading picks for Welker and Moss).

More recently, 2017, 2019 and 2022 are in the discussion.
As the years went by, Belichick did not adequately replace front office staff that departed, and it showed in his last few drafts.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

I'm going back further than most will remember, but 1970 has to rate as the worst.

Only one player, Dennis Wirgowski, ever started for the Pats - for all of three seasons, on bad teams.


1985 and 1997 were runnerups.

Some consider 2007 to be bad, but I don't when you look at the big picture - in other words, what the Patriots did with that draft capital (trading picks for Welker and Moss).

I have no conscious memories of the 70s, though I was alive for part of them.

And the trades in 2007 are a fair point, though one could argue that the draft class itself sucked [redacted].

 

[BennyBledsoe]

Chris Canty...god, I remember 1998, freshman year at UConn, having to watch games on my friend's tiny TV with bad reception. And just watching Canty get lit up... he made me so mad during a night game when I was standing on a carpet on those miserable linoleum dorm floors... I somehow slipped the rug out from under me in my 'enthusiasm' in critiquing his play.

 

[One-If-By-Sea]

And the trades in 2007 are a fair point, though one could argue that the draft class itself sucked [redacted].

Are you saying 2007 minus trades?

 

[manxman2601]

2017 v 2019 is quite the battle. Only 4 picks in '17 but at least they got someone decent out of it in Wise. When you have 10 picks, as in '19, and the only decent one was a punter, that has to take the biscuit.

Let's hope '26 is more '25 than those years.

My God though, BB was a bad drafter.

 

[Clonamery]

2017 v 2019 is quite the battle. Only 4 picks in '17 but at least they got someone decent out of it in Wise. When you have 10 picks, as in '19, and the only decent one was a punter, that has to take the biscuit.

Let's hope '26 is more '25 than those years.

My God though, BB was a bad drafter.

And it is so ****ing easy.

 

[manxman2601]

And it is so ****ing easy.

We nail it every year......sort of. Well not really.

 

[Clonamery]

We nail it every year......sort of. Well not really.

Well, if you can't find people you trust, you're not going to be good at it, hence Vrabel bringing Cowden in.

 

[mayoclinic]

We nail it every year......sort of. Well not really.

At least we don't sh*t the bed.