Wrapping up Day 2 with updates, background, and quotes from all four Patriots' picks

FOXBOROUGH -- Quick-hit thoughts and some background on the four players the Patriots selected Friday night.

1. Cornerback Joejuan Williams watches a lot of film. How much?


“I watch film like I watch Games of Thrones or something,” he said shortly after the Patriots took him in the second round Friday night. The Vandy corner had two private workouts with the Patriots, and apparently made enough of an impact on Bill Belichick for New England to go get him with the 45th overall pick.

When it comes to film, he said he studies Jalen Ramsey and Richard Sherman a lot.

“Those are two I like to study,” he said. “They have the same traits as I do, but at the end of the day, I want to find what’s best for me. But those are two guys I look up to.”

The Sherman comparison is interesting. His college position coach spoke with BSJ.com about that here, but Williams expanded on that a bit in his call.

“Watching his game, you see how he plays, you see how smart he is – that’s something you can definitely look up to,” Williams said of Sherman. “At the end of the day, even though I look up to (Sherman and Ramsey), I’m my own person. I can’t say, ‘Am I better than this person or am I better than that person.’ I’m my own guy. I feel like, like I said before, that I’ve got the full package. I can run, cover and hit. That’s something I want to bring to the team any type of way.”

Nick Caserio on Williams: “He’s a tremendously impressive kid. I would say he's very mature. He's a great person which is important. It says a lot about him and the things he's endured throughout his life. But as a player, he's got some unique attributes that not a lot of players in that position have. How that necessarily translates into our system, we'll find out. He primarily played in the perimeter at Vanderbilt. He was a perimeter corner and played against a lot of good people. He's a player we spent time with on a couple of different occasions. I think Coach (Bill Belichick) has made his trips to Nashville worth it here over the past however number of years. He's just an impressive kid. Where he's going to play, it's too early to determine that. What we do know is that he's played in the secondary at a good level against a lot of good people and been productive. He's a very smart kid.”

2. Chase Winovich is already on the program. The Michigan edge defender was asked multiple times about any sort of pre-draft contact with the Patriots, and he begged off politely, saying it was only in a “limited capacity.”

“I’d rather just wait to dive into that further until I receive further instructions on how much information I can share,” he said.

He did talk a little bit about his positional versatility — in addition to his work at multiple spots on defense (inside linebacker as well as working on the edge), he also played some tight end, fullback, and special teams.

“I ended up coming in as an inside linebacker and I played a little bit of ‘will’ and ‘mike’ and I also played some ‘sam.’ And then Coach (Jim) Harbaugh came in, we had some injuries and some lack of depth there and Coach Harbaugh liked my speed, so he switched me over (to offense),” he recalled. “And he’s a very intelligent guy and a great football coach, so I said, ‘Hey, wherever I can get on the field.’

"I dealt with some injuries and didn’t really get the chance to play, but ultimately after that season, I ended up switching back to defensive end. From the jump, it became pretty obvious that that was my calling, and as soon as Coach (Don) Brown came in and he put me as his ‘Cheetah One’ which is like his – Coach Brown is our defensive coordinator, and that’s the premier pass rush position in our defense, and that’s something I held for three years at Michigan.”

He also had a fairly straightforward answer when asked to describe his style of play.

“I like to think of myself as kind of a junkyard dog — just tenacious, relentless effort and motor, just scrapping for every inch,” he said. “But at the same time, I like to think I’m slippery here – as they say in Pittsburgh, ‘slippy.’

“I think I bring some versatility and I think my combine was an example of some of the speed that I have. And when you factor all of that in together, I think that makes me a pretty interesting pick and prospect and football player in general. At the end of the day, I’m just trying to go out there, prove my worth to the other guys on the team and ultimately to the rest of the world.”

Caserio on Winovich: “He was primarily an end-of-line scrimmage player at Michigan. He did a lot of things well in their system. (We) have a lot of respect for Coach Harbaugh and the program that he runs and the defense that (Winovich) played in. He's been productive rushing the passer. He's got a good motor. He's a pretty instinctive guy. He's good with his hands. He's got pretty good technique and he's been productive over the course of a couple of years here now, and he's got long hair which I'm sure everybody will enjoy – until we tell him to cut it. He has some value, hopefully not only defensively but in the kicking game as well with his size at six-two-and-a-half, six-three, 245, 250 (pounds). He runs fairly well, I think he ran a 4.6 [40 yard dash] or somewhere in that vicinity, so it's a pretty good combination of size and speed, toughness and instinctiveness.”