‘Abnormal’ Athletic LB Linked to Patriots in NFL Draft

The New England Patriots will have to address some of their problems in the 2021 NFL Draft. Several players may join the team, and one talented LB may sign the Patriots in the draft.

Head coach Bill Belichick played with a one-dimensional offense in 2020. His assistants will have to improve this part of the game. New England ranked 26th in rushing yards allowed this past season. The linebacker group saw some struggles in 2020. After New England solves the situation with their signal-caller and wide receivers, coaches will improve their tight end and linebacker units.

Daniel Jeremiah from NFL.com reported that the Patriots will take Parsons to boost the defense. “Parsons is an explosive, versatile playmaker, and the Patriots need to get faster on defense.”

A talented LB to try his chances with the Patriots in the 2021 NFL Draft

The Draft Network hasn’t provided a mock draft at this point, but they have a nice scouting report on Parsons.

“Micah Parsons projects as a dynamic impact player at the NFL level. Parsons, who elected to opt-out of the 2020 college football season, has two seasons of high-impact play on his film resume. His impact was only further affirmed as the Penn State defense fell apart without him on the field for the 2020 season. He was a prized recruit as a pass rusher coming out of high school, is still ironing out some of the finer points of play processing on the second level but his freakish combination of size and explosiveness allow him to explode and drive into gaps when he sees the play develop and as a result he’s a persistent winner of beating ball carriers and blockers to the spot between the tackles.

Parsons is an impact player on third downs, which significantly boosts his value to pro teams and masks some of the inexperiences of transitioning to stack linebacker. He’s a dynamic blitzer and has the versatility to rush against offensive linemen and claim victories to get home to the quarterback. He has illustrated an incredible level of pure instinct for the game thus far and his ability to navigate the line of scrimmage and rip at the football to create turnovers is best accentuated in an aggressive front defense that will task him with playing forward early in downs and not ask him to make flat footed reads before scraping and flowing to the ball.”

The Patriots may take Parsons with the 15th overall pick. This theory still leaves enough space for Jones to make his way to New England.