How the New England Patriots were built – NFL.com

If Chandler, Hightower and Collins were the turning points in the front seven, it took the big price tag free agent acquisitions of Browner and Revis to put them over the top.

The mid-to-low level free agents are pretty impressive too. Ninkovich, Arrington, LaFell, Connolly and Wendell are all big contributors and pretty much anyone could’ve signed them.