NFL Draft countdown: Deal with Patriots’ first-round choose at No. 4

The 2025 NFL Draft is 4 days away, and the Patriots maintain the fourth choose for the primary time since 1994 once they chosen defensive finish Willie McGinest. This 12 months, they’ve been linked to those prospects.

OT Will Campbell | LSU

Final offseason, New England took North Carolina quarterback Drake Maye third general within the draft. This 12 months, Patriots.com author Mike “Deuce” Dussault thinks they’ll get him some safety by including Campbell.

Broadly thought-about one of the best offensive lineman within the draft, the 6-foot-6, 319-pound sort out allowed simply two sacks in 994 pass-blocking snaps over the previous two seasons and completed 2024 as a first-team All-American, sharing the SEC Jacobs Blocking Trophy with Texas left sort out Kelvin Banks Jr.

Whereas a lot has been made about his arm size (32 ⅝ inches), Campbell obtained the second-highest rating for an offensive lineman on the NFL Scouting Mix with athleticism Dussault calls “historic.”

In response to his relative athletic rating (RAS), Campbell exhibits elite velocity and explosiveness, the Fifteenth-highest athletic rating out of 1,508 offensive sort out prospects since 1987, which bodes nicely for his NFL profession.

CB/WR Travis Hunter | Colorado

This 12 months, Patriots insider Phil Perry put New England’s future within the palms of the followers by internet hosting a dwell, interactive mock draft as a part of his “The Subsequent Pats Podcast.” Polls have been used to find out every choice, with Hunter receiving 84 p.c of the votes to grow to be the staff’s subsequent first-round choose.