Breer has dangerous information about Patriots’ odds of drafting Hunter, Carter
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“It is beginning to really feel to me like there’s much less and fewer of a chance that Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter get to the Patriots.”
Given the variety of obvious holes sprinkled throughout the Patriots’ depth chart, the case could be made that New England wants to focus on the perfect participant out there after they land on the clock with the No. 4 choose within the upcoming NFL Draft.
Although the crew’s most urgent want may be a left sort out, the Patriots’ finest probabilities of including a right away impression participant at No. 4 doubtless lies in both Penn State cross rusher Abdul Carter or CB/WR Travis Hunter falling to them at that spot on the draft order.
Each Carter and Hunter sit atop this present NFL Draft class as can’t-miss, blue-chip prospects — and would every give the Patriots a reliable star expertise who might make a right away impression in 2025.
However as interesting as it could be to see Hunter reel in catches from Drake Maye or watch Carter rack up sacks alongside Milton Williams and Keion White, Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer doesn’t see both participant being out there at No. 4 for New England in his newest draft outlook.
Whereas the overall consensus is that the Titans, who maintain the No. 1 choose, are slated to choose Miami QB Cam Ward first, it stays to be seen if the Browns (No. 2 choose) and Giants (No. 3) will let each Carter and Hunter slip via their respective grasp.
“It’s beginning to really feel to me like there’s much less and fewer of a chance that Abdul Carter or Travis Hunter get to the Patriots,” Breer mentioned Tuesday on NBC Sports activities Boston’s Arbella Early Version.
“The Browns and Giants have a minimum of given off some alerts over the past week or two that they may get place gamers — Carter at 2 and Hunter at 3 — after which double again on Day 2 and get quarterbacks.”
The lone state of affairs the place one among Carter or Hunter drop to No. 4 would doubtless contain the Browns and Giants taking a QB with their choose, with Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders standing as a possible goal for each groups.
However Sanders’ true worth on this draft leaderboard stays murky, whereas New York additionally added veteran QBs in Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston this offseason.
Sanders may very well be a reliable first-round goal on this draft, Breer mentioned, he additionally doesn’t have the instruments or ceiling that warrants a top-three choose — even for a crew in determined want of a QB.
“I have a look at (Sanders) rather a lot like Bo Nix final yr in that, I feel in case you polled all 32 groups, there’ll in all probability be over 20 of them that don’t view him as a first-round expertise,” Breer mentioned. “He doesn’t have elite arm power. He’s not an excellent athlete. He’s not overly massive. There are a ton of flaws there.
“So the comparability to Nix right here is, there are a number of groups that felt that approach about Bo Nix final yr, so it needed to be about match for Nix. If Nix doesn’t go 12 general to the Broncos, he may fall out of the primary spherical altogether.”
Whereas Breer is skeptical that Sanders is plucked earlier than choose No. 4, ESPN’s Discipline Yates famous earlier this week that he believes each Ward and Sanders can be off the board as top-three picks, opening the door for the Patriots to draft the reigning Heisman Trophy winner in Hunter.
“I had nothing to say for the Patriots aside from, ‘Congratulations, you simply obtained the perfect participant within the draft — who occurs to fill a serious want for New England,” Yates mentioned of Hunter on “The Mina Kimes Present.” “Extra broad receiver than cornerback as a result of they’ve clearly a wonderful nook in Christian Gonzalez, after which a superb nook in Carlton Davis who they paid massive cash for simply a few weeks in the past.”
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