COMMENTARY
After twice trading out of opportunities to draft stud receivers Demaryius Thomas and Dez Bryant, the Patriots finally pulled the trigger and made a selection as the 2010 NFL Draft dwindled toward the end of its first round. Though there was some question about what exactly the Pats were getting with that pick.
“New England might have spent a first-round pick on a special teams player,” Bryan Flynn wrote in a Bleacher-Report analysis that echoed the similar sentiments of better-known draft gurus Mel Kiper and Mike Mayock. “It will depend if McCourty can get on the field and help out on defense.