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Those 2 former Patriots were the ONLY #17 draft selections in Pats history.
RB John Stephens was the runaway Rookie Of The Year in 1988 with nearly 1,200 yards rushing - 2 decent years after his rookie year and then his injuries started to quickly derail a career that looked Hall Of Fame type
Woody was a key player at center on an offensive line that won 2 Super Bowls
I think the team has been successful at #17 by those 2 picks thus far
In 1999 we had ironically picked at the same numbers #17 and #28 of the first round.....#28 That year was a player that I thought was going to be the greatest LB for the Pats in Ohio State's ILB Andy Katzenmoyer,but an early back injury in his rookie season ended his career abruptly,I still believe today that from what I saw of him at OSU he would have been one of the best ever Pats LBs
And by the way...the player selected by the Pats AFTER Katzenmoyer happened to be on of the toughest blue collar RBs in Pats history Kevin Faulk at #46
RB John Stephens was the runaway Rookie Of The Year in 1988 with nearly 1,200 yards rushing - 2 decent years after his rookie year and then his injuries started to quickly derail a career that looked Hall Of Fame type
Woody was a key player at center on an offensive line that won 2 Super Bowls
I think the team has been successful at #17 by those 2 picks thus far
In 1999 we had ironically picked at the same numbers #17 and #28 of the first round.....#28 That year was a player that I thought was going to be the greatest LB for the Pats in Ohio State's ILB Andy Katzenmoyer,but an early back injury in his rookie season ended his career abruptly,I still believe today that from what I saw of him at OSU he would have been one of the best ever Pats LBs
And by the way...the player selected by the Pats AFTER Katzenmoyer happened to be on of the toughest blue collar RBs in Pats history Kevin Faulk at #46
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