Five Wideout Prospects Should Be On Patriots Radar In NFL Draft

The New England Patriots need a top wideout option given that Julian Edelman is nowhere to be seen. The 2018 Super Bowl MVP announced his retirement last year. Head coach Bill Belichick has a few good options for the 2022 NFL Draft. A few good prospects could become Patriots following the NFL draft.

NFL Media draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah discussed five receivers who could be catching passes from Patriots’ Mac Jones.
Chris Olave from Ohio State and Jahan Dotson are on top of this list.

“I think there’s a ton of guys in that range,” Jeremiah told the media on Friday. “The two guys I would keep an eye on with that first-round pick who I think are going to probably come off the board right around there — now, I say that going into the combine, know that — I’m talking about Chris Olave from Ohio State and Jahan Dotson from Penn State. Both these guys are going to run in the 4.3s, so they’re going to fly around in Indy, and maybe that helps elevate them up the board a little bit. But both those guys are pristine route runners with big-time speed, and I think that would give them some play-making ability.

“Talk about Mac and the deep ball he was able to throw this college. He throws a beautiful touch deep ball. When you got guys that can get over the top, takeoffs, posts, double moves, things like that, that’s what Olave and Jahan Dotson can do.”

Great comparison

Lance Zierlein from NFL Media believes that Dotson is just like Emmanuel Sanders.

“I think Dotson for me, I think he has the best hands in the draft,” Jeremiah said. “He really attacks the football. He’s got outstanding ability to adjust. He can catch it back hip, above the rim. You name it, he can do it. So he’s a really intriguing player to me.

“Both these guys, I think the reason why they would be there in the 20s is because of the play strength question. Both of them are going to be under 190 pounds, and you just wish they were a little bit physically stronger. But I think both of them come off the board in that range.”

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It doesn’t end here. Jeremiah listed Jameson Williams from Alabama as another option for Belichick’s offense. He and John Metchie deal with injuries and won’t take part in the NFL Combine.

“Man, it could end up being a tremendous value for somebody towards the bottom of the first round if (Williams) ends up sliding down there,” Jeremiah said.

The list of players is really long. Sky Moore from Western Michigan would look good on Belichick’s roster and we can definitely say the same for Christian Watson from North Dakota State.