Patriots Interested In Trading Broncos’ Top Wide Receiver

The New England Patriots are interested in landing Demaryius Thomas. Is this trade possible?

Mike Giardi of the NFL Network confirmed that the Patriots are really active on the trade market this period. New England is looking forward to a potential deal for Demaryius Thomas and the Broncos are open to deal him. Giardi also noted that the Patriots are not focused on a specific player, adding that they are just looking for an upgrade to their roster.

Jay Glazer of Fox News reported that the Patriots are in the market for a “bonafide, premium wide receiver.”

“Here’s a surprise for you also. The New England Patriots, they are trying to go after a bonafide, premium wide receiver offering up high draft choices for that,” Glazer said.

Thomas has a nice relationship with the Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. When McDaniels held the head coach position in Denver, he drafted the receiver in 2010 with the No. 22 overall pick out of Georgia Tech.

Does New England really need a receiver? Chris Hogan will become free agent, and Rob Gronkowski is dealing with serious injuries. Julian Edelman is the only signed receiver through this season.

“As you know, a trade is a two-way street, so you have to have a trade partner, but I would say in our case, probably the other 31 teams, probably excluding the ones in our division that we’re probably not going to deal with them, but the other teams in the league I think they know that we are willing to trade. If they have a player for whatever reason they want to trade, in all honesty usually we get a call because we are a team that trades. There are some teams that do, some that don’t. I am not saying we’d make a lot of trades, but if the situation was right we would certainly consider it. We’ve made our share, so I would say for the most part we hear from teams if they have a player that there is interest in,” head coach Bill Belichick said.

“Sometimes we initiate it based on whatever the set of circumstances are. Generally, we hear from other people. Unless there is something we identify that we feel they are not considering it, but if you put something on the table maybe they would consider it. There are some situations that could come up like that.”