I always welcome these tracker sites. They are handy bc they do the work for us.
I don't have a binkie in this draft but if you do, take a look, maybe your binkie is there.
Keeping track of which prospects the Patriots are having pre-draft meetings with ahead of the 2023 NFL Draft.
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I read through all of the reports (thanks for posting), but what they reiterated what I've been feeling -- that there just aren't a lot
of guys that don't have significant question marks. For instance, I saw Emmanuel Forbes mocked as the 4th player to come off the
board just yesterday, but he is consistently listed as 166 pounds and his ankles appear like matchsticks. Is he going to be able
to hold up to the pounding? Paris Johnson is a fluid OT with good size and feet to be a top pass blocker, but it's obvious watching
him that his upper-body strength isn't great and he struggles to contain physicality. Brian Branch looks like a likely Patriot in a lot
of ways, but he ran very slow 40s at the Combine. Shouldn't that be a concern? On and on it goes. Sure things are few and far
between.
One guy who is sort of a binkie of mine at this point is Darnell Wright the OT from Tennessee. My understanding is that we have
talked with him twice and his "issue" is 8.5 inch hands, described as among the smallest ever in a guy with good OT size, but that
doesn't seem to affect his game at all to my eyes. If we took him at 14 I wouldn't blink, but I would if we take Johnson.
Barth's list was interesting because it contains a lot of day 3 types as opposed to focusing on the top 50. Also, trying to make a
connection between guys we've had formal interviews with and actually selected has little discernable pattern over the years, so
I just read it to try and get a general handle on what these guys are as prospects and compare that info to what other sources
say. None are identical, but Barth's source or sources seem more or less in line with other opinions that I've seen on some of these
prospects.
