FOXBORO — The 2-5 Patriots are a well-liked group forward of subsequent week’s NFL commerce deadline.
The Patriots have obtained calls on lots of their impending unrestricted free brokers, a supply stated. The Patriots’ prime UFAs subsequent offseason are left deal with Trent Brown, tight finish Hunter Henry, broad receiver Kendrick Bourne and members of the 2020 NFL Draft class: security Kyle Dugger, offensive lineman Mike Onwenu and edge defender Josh Uche.
Sources polled final week consider the Patriots may get a Day 2 draft decide in alternate for Dugger or Uche.
As for the probability of a deal, one supply stated “one trade is definitely possible” however it will be a shock if there was greater than that.
Head coach Bill Belichick wasn’t curious about diving deep into the Oct. 31 commerce deadline throughout Friday morning’s information convention.
“Yeah, we’re just focused on Miami right now,” Belichick stated. “(Director of player personnel) Matt (Groh) and his staff, if there’s something to talk about, I’m sure we’ll talk about it.”
Belichick was requested if he was checking in with Groh frequently.
“Matt’s office is 30 feet away,” he stated. “If we need to see each other, we’ll see each other. If something comes up about anything, yeah.”
Belichick wouldn’t say that the Patriots would solely contemplate buying and selling a participant within the closing 12 months of his deal.
“Yeah, there’s a lot of factors involved with players’ contracts,” Belichick stated. “Everyone’s different, so I don’t think there’s any specific rule.”
Belichick didn’t single out any gamers however did say they’ve talked to a few of their impending free brokers about extensions.
“Yeah, we’ve talked to a number of players,” he stated. “The one’s that we’ve reached an agreement with, we’ve reached an agreement with. The ones we haven’t, we haven’t.”
Wide receiver DeVante Parker and linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley have been signed to extensions.
The Patriots are set to have essentially the most cap area within the NFL subsequent offseason, that means they’ll seemingly be closely concerned in free company. Many instances, if the Patriots lose a participant in free company, they’ll obtain a compensatory draft decide in alternate. But compensatory picks are decided by a formulation depending on what number of gamers a group positive factors and loses in free company. So, if the Patriots are planning to signal extra free brokers than they’ll lose, then they seemingly wouldn’t obtain comp picks for the gamers they lose. That may affect them to commerce a participant now to get one thing in return.
“Well yeah, it has some relevance,” Belichick stated of the comp decide formulation forward of the deadline.
The Patriots must swing a commerce by Halloween at 4 p.m. ET.
Source: www.bostonherald.com