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Offensive Tackle Dilemma <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Patriots made two trades on Sunday for help at Offensive Tackle.\u00a0 They acquired Tyrone Wheatley Jr., a 6\u20196\u201d 320 lbs Swing Tackle from Cleveland, and shipped the speed running back Pierre Strong in exchange.\u00a0 The 2nd<\/sup> year, 4th<\/sup> round pick seemed to fall out of favor with the team after a mediocre pre-season.\u00a0 Wheatley played TE in college and very limited at that.<\/p>\n

The Patriots had him in for an evaluation last season but didn\u2019t sign him.\u00a0 I will say the limited video I have seen on him from this Pre-season looks good and I saw a report that Pro Football Focus had an 88.4 grade on him this Pre-season.\u00a0 That was the 4th<\/sup> highest in the league.<\/p>\n

The second trade was for 2nd<\/sup> year OT Vederian Lowe another 6\u20196\u201d 320 lbs tackle.\u00a0 Lowe played at Illinois and started 52 games over his career, making the Big Ten Honorable Mention All-Conference team.\u00a0 The second-year player was a 6th<\/sup> round pick (#184) in 2022.\u00a0 Lowe was the Vikings backup Left Tackle and can play Right Tackle as well.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lowe played in 4 games last season and finished the final game at left Tackle playing 33 snaps.\u00a0 He also contributed on Special Teams with another 20 snaps.\u00a0 The Pats gave up a 6th round pick for him.<\/p>\n

What does this mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conor McDermott and Reilly Reiff are both hurt.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have McDermott making the team and he might be put on IR before the 53-man roster is set, meaning that he would be out for the season, ineligible to be recalled during the season.\u00a0 Reiff hurt his knee on Friday against Tennessee and if it’s an ACL tear, his career could be over.<\/p>\n

The signing of these two tackles indicates these two players may not be part of the team\u2019s plans anymore.\u00a0 The erratic Trent Brown hasn\u2019t really played any competitive snaps this pre-season.\u00a0 Could he possibly be a candidate to be cut?<\/p>\n

Rookie Sidy Sow is just not ready.\u00a0 He is moving from OG to OT and has struggled with the footwork necessary to counter speed rushers.\u00a0 The 6\u2019 5\u201d 318 lbs. lineman is learning the nuances of playing the OT position.\u00a0 His play during the pre-season gave him valuable reps to learn from, but he is not ready to protect the QB.<\/p>\n

Offensive Guard Issues\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cole Strange and Michael Owenu do not appear to be ready to play.\u00a0 Strange has dressed but not participated in workouts.\u00a0 Owenu just came off the PUP list last week and has taken only limited reps in non-contact drills.<\/p>\n

Could the Patriots be forced to start rookie Antonio Mafi at RG and second-year player Chasen Hines at Left Guard?\u00a0 Mafi has limited experience playing O-line.\u00a0 He was recruited as a Nose Tackle at UCLA and converted to G in 2020, started 3 games in 2021 and started all 13 games in his senior season.\u00a0 He was second-team PAC 10 all-conference in 2022.<\/p>\n

Hines was a 2022 draft pick taken in the 7th<\/sup> round, #210.\u00a0 He played 3 seasons at LSU, starting 17 games, and parts of 33 games.\u00a0 In the 2019 season he was the backup Center behind All-American Lloyd Cushenberry.<\/p>\n

We all knew the Offensive Line was the one area of concern that we would be watching this Pre-season and it\u2019s been an absolute train wreck.\u00a0 Bill Belichick is panicking now because he ignored the need for Ots in the draft or earlier in the Pre-season.\u00a0 He tried to add low-cost Free Agents (Reiff and Calvin Anderson).\u00a0 How could he anticipate that Anderson would be sick and that the 34-year-old Reiff, entering his 12th<\/sup> season in the league would get hurt?<\/p>\n

We’ll see how it all works out, but there are definitely some serious questions up front for the Patriots heading into the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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