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Patriots Divulge Asking Price For Joe Milton
Patriots Divulge Asking Price For Joe Milton
Last month I posed a really important question. Given that Drake Maye looks like a hit, should the Patriots consider shopping, Joe Milton?
Milton has the traits to be a something at the NFL level and he’s totally blocked by Maye. In that final start of the regular season, Milton put on a show and it could represent a sell high opportunity for the Patriots who have holes all over this roster.
Tony Grossi of 850 Cleveland and TheLandOnDemand.com reported the following:
“Sources closer to the situation than me expect the asking price of the Patriots to be a third-round pick,” Grossi wrote.
I’m fully aware that Grossi isn’t on the top of the news breaker list but his report feels very accurate given the circumstances here. It’s hard to ask for more than a third round pick when Geno Smith has somewhat of a track record of success and that’s what he got moved for. Then again, New England has three more years of cost certainty on a rookie contract and the former Tennessee product is the much younger player.
Not that we have an overly big sample size here in the voting ^ but I think the voters are right. There is zero upside to giving up draft capital for Geno, especially when you now have to give him an overpriced extension. Milton has generational arm talent and athletically looks like he belongs. What if the light bulb moment happens to him? It seems far smart to give up a third rounder for that possibility.
By the way, if anyone cares, I drafted Milton in the third round for the 49ers in the War Room series last year basically arguing that this is a better path than paying Brock Purdy. I can’t wait to track how that goes in the coming years.
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