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10 Biggest Draft Steals | ProFootballFocus.com
Flowers and Roberts both make PFF’s Draft Steals list. I think it’s important to recognize how important stopping the run is to the Patriots at the defensive end position. Usually everyone gets excited by defensive end because of pass rush potential, but not the Patriots.
As for Roberts, he’s seen time with the starters in OTAs and should be right in the mix to get playing time as a rookie.
Flowers was a second-team All-SEC selection in 2014, racking up 13.5 tackles for loss, five sacks and three forced fumbles, but he fell to the fourth round because he’s a bit of a tweener at 6’2" and 266 pounds. Flowers shows surprisingly good field speed in coverage for a player his size, but he’s not always explosive off the snap and he tends to wrestle more than he pursues at times. Still, Bill Belichick saw him as a good value with the 101st pick.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/flowers-was-a-second-team-all-sec-selection-in/
With experience rushing from the left and right side and also from the two-point stance, Flowers could be a coveted versatile chess piece for almost any team’s front seven.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/with-experience-rushing-from-the-left-and-right/
