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The time for post-mortems is around the corner, and you can believe one of the biggest topics over the next few days will center on how the NFL viewed this incoming quarterback class. After all, after seeing five come off the board within the top-fifteen selections a year ago, we waited until selection 137 in this draft class to hear the fifth quarterback come off the board.
Western Kentucky’s Bailey Zappe, to the New England Patriots.
Heads were scratched in the wake of the move. After all, that meant that Zappe came off the board before Sam Howell and Carson Strong, two passers who generated a lot more early-round buzz than Zappe, despite his prodigious numbers last season for Western Kentucky. Compounding matters was the idea that it was the Patriots who drafted him, as New England was one of those teams who drafted a QB early last year in Mac Jones.
So why Zappe, and why New England?
Drafting quarterbacks is a Belichick staple
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One of the more fascinating aspects to the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick Era was this. After drafting Brady in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft, and seeing him win a Super Bowl during the 2001-2002 season, the Belichick-led Patriots kept adding at the quarterback position.
They added Rohan Davey in the fourth round of the 2002 draft, just months after Brady led them to Super Bowl XXXVI. The following year they drafted Kliff Kingsbury in the sixth round, perhaps putting him on a path to his current coaching job with the Arizona Cardinals. They added Matt Cassell in the seventh round in 2005, and Kevin O’Connell in the third round in 2008 (now the second former quarterback drafted by Belichick to become an NFL head coach).
The next year they added another player in the seventh round who was a college quarterback, although he carved out a role as a wide receiver. That was Julian Edelman.
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