I post a Patriots mock every year and can never find them easily after time has passed to review them, so I'm tossing it in here.
Instead of trying to match up nine guys with the nine slots we have, I'll break it down a bit and suggest 20 guys that I think might be more realistic future Pats than Big Sky Fly hacking into the PFF mock mainframe and drafting every talented player in the 2021 draft by making 40 trades. "The world still needs ditch-diggers" is what my Old Man used to say or "you can't always get what you want" as Jagger did.
The first round is completely unpredictable, so I'll do it this way: If we get a QB, then I'd be happiest with Mac Jones, next is Trey Lance followed by Justin Fields. Any one of them landing in Foxboro and I'd be completely cranked.
If we don't get a QB then I'll predict a trade down to, say, the mid-20s, which should get us another 2nd (at least) and think we'll be looking at either LB Zaven Collins, DT Christian Barmore or S Trevon Moehrig as our first-rounder. Yeah, don't be surprised if Bill is tired of us bitching about all the shitty Safeties he's drafted in the 2nd and 3rd and decides to show us how much he cares by taking one in the 1st. FWIW, nobody out there is confusing Moehrig with Jordan Richards. He should be quite good.
Then moving on to the 2nd I'd be looking for a couple of guys such as Slot/gadget/Kr Rondale Moore or even the possibility that Bill likes QB Davis Mills to develop. Another position that might make sense is to try and find an Adam Butler replacement for the IDL and Iowa's Daviyon Nixon could be an upgrade over the former free-agent. As a dark horse I'd love to get OL Trey Smith.
I'll now lump a few guys together that I think might interest Bill and his guys from the 3rd through 5th where we have 4 picks to spend at present. I'll speculate that RB Michael Carter,IOL Kendrick Green, WR Simi Fehoko, WR Amon-Ra St. Brown, LB Ernest Jones, OT Walker Little, OL Royce Newman or DB Camryn Bynum could be potential Patriots.
With the last few picks representing slappy time I'd like to see us land WR Cade Johnson LB/ST Grant Stuard, RBs Ben Mason and Rhamondre Stevenson or WR Tyler Vaughns