Patriots’ 2025 draft day trades, analyzed

The New England Patriots were quite busy during the NFL Draft. Besides adding 11 new players to their roster, they also made a series of trades to acquire some of those and increase their future capital.

“I think that’s the fun part about the draft,” vice president of player personnel Ryan Cowden said on the final day of the draft. “Sometimes opportunities don’t present themselves. There’s always got to be two partners, right? There’s got to be somebody willing to come up and somebody willing to go down. What you try to do is just as best you can.”

In total, Cowden and the rest of the Patriots’ decision makers — Eliot Wolf, Mike Vrabel, Alonzo Highsmith, Matt Groh — found four different trade…