The NFL Draft is less than a month away, and that means it's time for Patriots fans to flex their GM muscles. Pats Pulpit is opening the floor for your personal mock drafts—the selections you'd actually make if you had Eliot Wolf's job and the Patriots' draft capital. This isn't about predicting what Vrabel and Wolf will do. It's about what you think they *should* do.
That's the fun part. With the roster taking shape under the new regime, there are real questions worth debating. Do we need another cornerback when we've got depth from Christian Gonzalez down through Marcus Jones and the rest of that secondary? Is the linebacker room overcrowded, or do we keep stacking versatile defenders who can fit multiple schemes? These are the kinds of decisions that separate competent front offices from great ones.
The submission process is straightforward: drop your full mock draft in the comments or screenshot your picks on Twitter using #PostPulpit. Written versions work just fine if you want to explain your reasoning—and honestly, that's where the value is. Anyone can throw names at a board. Explaining *why* you're taking a specific position in round three, how it fills a scheme gap, or why you're passing on a name everyone expects—that's real draft analysis.
We're at an interesting inflection point for New England. The defensive line has talented building blocks with Dre'Mont Jones and Milton Williams already in place. The secondary is young and getting real experience. The question marks are more about depth, scheme fit, and whether we address certain positional needs early or late. Your mock draft forces you to think through those tradeoffs the way a real decision-maker has to.
The mailbag drops Friday with the best submissions highlighted. So if you've been thinking through the draft board anyway—and let's be honest, it's late March and you probably have—here's your chance to put it on record and see how your scouting matches up against what actually happens.
Based on reporting from Pats Pulpit.