NFL Mock Drafts Point To One Potential Solid Patriots First-Round Bet

When it comes to the Patriots and the NFL draft, there’s always one very important disclaimer: Nobody has any real idea what Bill Belichick will do on draft night.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, though, it’s certainly easy to see a few potential paths for the Patriots to take in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft.

New England currently owns the 21st pick in the first round, and a lot of what it does will come down two things: The first is whether the Patriots even keep the pick given their propensity for trading down, and the second is what happens in the picks that precede New England. Obviously.

With a little more than a week before the draft gets underway in Las Vegas, the mock…