By BOB McGINN
Special to BostonSportsJournal.com
Note from Bedard: As many of you know, longtime Packers beat writer Bob McGinn is one of my mentors. During my time at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, I got to learn from the best in the business: Bob and Tom Silverstein. Bob taught me his system for analyzing film and the game, and I was happy to leave draft evaluations to him. Nobody has better sources and is more thorough on draft prospects.
Bob is now a business owner like myself, as he started BobMcGinnFootball.com and he will soon be embarking on his 34th annual draft series featuring the opinions of dozens of personnel people. Subscriptions to his site and just the draft series are available and coming from someone who's already a member at his site and has read his series for years, it's well worth it. There's not a better rundown on the prospects.
To give you a taste of what you can expect from his draft series, Bob has graciously allowed us to run his post-combine series on the Top 60 prospects in the draft, where the Patriots have (basically) three picks: 31st, 43rd, and 63rd.
As Good As Gone -
The Next Level –
Second-round Possibilities –
Part II: THE NEXT LEVEL (28)
CALVIN RIDLEY*, WR, Alabama: 6-0 ½, 189.
Amari Cooper
Jalen Hurts
CHRISTIAN KIRK*, WR, Texas A&M: 5-10 ½, 201.
Kellen Mond
HAYDEN HURST*, TE, South Carolina: 6-4 ½, 250.
MIKE McGLINCHEY, T, Notre Dame: 6-8, 309.
KOLTON MILLER*, T, UCLA: 6-8 ½, 309.
Jonathan Ogden
TYRELL CROSBY, T, Oregon: 6-4 ½, 309.
ORLANDO BROWN*, T, Oklahoma: 6-8, 345.
Orlando “Zeus” Brown
ISAIAH WYNN, G, Georgia: 6-2 ½, 313.
JAMES DANIELS*, C, Iowa: 6-3 ½, 306.
Billy Price
WILL HERNANDEZ, G, Texas-El Paso: 6-2 ½, 327.
FRANK RAGNOW, C, Arkansas: 6-5, 312.
AUSTIN CORBETT, G, Nevada: 6-4 ½, 306.
Joel) Bitonio
LAMAR JACKSON*, QB, Louisville: 6-2, 216.
Robert Griffin
DERRIUS GUICE*, RB, Louisiana State: 5-10 ½, 224.
Leonard Fournette
RASHAAD PENNY, RB, San Diego State: 5-11, 220.
Donnel Pumphrey
SONY MICHEL, RB, Georgia: 5-10 ½, 214.
Nick Chubb
NICK CHUBB, RB, Georgia: 5-11, 227.
Sony Michel
MARCUS DAVENPORT, DE, Texas-San Antonio: 6-5 ½, 264.
ARDEN KEY*, DE-OLB, Louisiana State: 6-5, 238.
Danielle (Hunter
Da’RON PAYNE*, DT, Alabama: 6-2 ½, 311.
ROQUAN SMITH*, ILB, Georgia: 6-1, 236.
Ryan Shazier
Ray Lewis
RASHAAN EVANS, ILB, Alabama: 6-2, 232.
Roquan Smith
LEIGHTON VANDER ESCH*, ILB-OLB, Boise State: 6-4, 256.
DENZEL WARD*, CB, Ohio State: 5-11, 183.
Marshon Lattimore
Gareon Conley
Simmie) Cobbs
CARLTON DAVIS*, CB, Auburn: 6-1, 206.
JOSH JACKSON*, CB, Iowa: 6-0 1/2, 196.
MIKE HUGHES*, CB, Central Florida: 5-10, 189.
DERWIN JAMES*, S, Florida State: 6-1 ½, 215.
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