The 2025 NFL Draft finally arrives next week, and with it comes the opportunity for the Patriots to build upon a productive free agency period by stacking some young promising talent onto the depth chart, hopefully at the team's biggest positions of need.
By now we've gotten a pretty good idea of the characteristics of this draft and the Patriots' position within it as they begin with the fourth overall pick. Once again, the assumption here for mock drafting purposes is that both Penn State's Abdul Carter and Colorado's Travis Hunter will be off the board, and in this scenario, the Patriots cannot find a trade partner to allow them to drop down a few spots and pick up even more capital.