The New England Patriots don’t have a Davante Adams, Amari Cooper nor DeAndre Hopkins of their receiver room. As a substitute, they’ve veterans like Kendrick Bourne, Okay.J. Osborn and Tyquan Thornton, all of whom additionally might be dealt earlier than the NFL commerce deadline.
So whereas the commerce packages for Adams, Cooper and most lately Hopkins are nothing to scoff at, they definitely don’t function a blueprint for the Patriots. It’s not as if Patriots would obtain those self same property in the event that they despatched Bourne, Osborn or Thornton wherever. Hell, a bundle of all three most likely wouldn’t go for a type of returns.
The Las Vegas Raiders obtained a conditional third-round decide for Adams, the Cleveland Browns primarily acquired a third-rounder for Cooper and the Tennessee Titans reportedly obtained a conditional fourth-rounder for Hopkins.
What Patriots fan wouldn’t take these property, proper? The 1-6 Patriots are in the same state of affairs to the 2-5 Raiders, 1-6 Browns and 1-6 Titans, in any case. New England ought to be shifting on from gamers it will possibly get one thing for, however the Pats don’t have lots of these.
Bourne most likely would garner the very best of three returns. The energetic veteran is probably the most achieved, the best and is enjoying on an affordable cope with time period remaining. Sadly, he’s additionally a 29-year-old coming off an ACL tear, which precipitated him to overlook the primary 4 video games of the season. Perhaps the Patriots get provided a conditional sixth-rounder from somebody like the San Francisco 49ers?
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Osborn, who’s latest social media exercise urged he’s sad in New England, was out there on the open market in March. He agreed to a modest one-year, $4 million cope with the Patriots. Does that sound like somebody groups would get right into a bidding battle for forward of the deadline? Osborn has seven catches for 57 yards in 5 video games (4 begins) this season. Perhaps a crew throws out a seventh-rounder hoping he seems like he did with the Minnesota Vikings?
Thornton, in the meantime, would possibly appeal to the least curiosity regardless of he’s youthful (24) and a 2022 second-round decide. He’s completed subsequent to nothing in three seasons and has been a wholesome scratch by the Patriots every of the final two weeks. In case you can’t get on the gameday roster for this receiver room likelihood is you received’t wherever. New England reportedly is making an attempt to commerce Thornton, however it’s arduous to consider there might be any suitors for a participant with 15 catches within the final two seasons (14 video games).
So whereas some groups are receiving reputable draft capital earlier than the NFL commerce deadline, don’t count on the Patriots to be amongst them.
