Peter King Makes Prediction On Patriots Pick In Latest 2020 Mock Draft

Which NFL team will try to trade for Tua Tagovailoa? Will the New England Patriots go with the flow this time? Tagovailoa was the projected No.1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft last season. His hip injury put an end to his final collegiate campaign. Joe Burrow appeared too. He will go to the Cincinnati Bengals at No.1. The Miami Dolphins will try to get Tagovailoa or Justin Herbert. If Miami takes the Oregon product and LA passes on Tagovailoa at sixth overall, we will probably see him slip. NBC Sports’ Peter King shared his most recent mock draft and it has something to do with the New England Patriots and their draft picks.

Peter King and his prediction about the Patriots and their draft

“So Tagovailoa could drop, and Bill Belichick really doesn’t want to take a quarterback now, with one draft pick in the top 85 this year and needs all over his roster. And truly: I have no indication, no inside information, that says he’d do this. It’s simply a guess. But think if you’re Belichick. Because your team never finishes 3-13, you never have a chance to get one of the best quarterbacks in the college game. Until Tagovailoa’s hip popped out of the socket last November, forcing immediate and urgent surgery, he was 1/1A with the transcendent Joe Burrow to be the first pick in this draft. And you don’t want to pillage the lone first or lone second-round pick from next year’s draft. But do you do it for a great but pockmarked talent such as Tagovailoa five months after major hip surgery? I do know Belichick would have confidence in his player-procurement skills.

“… Tough call for a franchise, but when would the Patriots ever get a shot at a potential superstar quarterback? Even if they had to throw in next year’s first-rounder, I think this would be a risk worth taking for the Patriots.”

The Patriots may get Tagovailoa and this would only spice things up in training camp. New England has Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer on the roster at the moment. They will have to compete for a starting position.