Peter King slams New England Patriots and Belichick after business during NFL Draft

NFL journalist Peter King has given a damning indictment of the New England Patriots and their activity during the NFL Draft.

There was certainly a lot of noise made in the NFL on draft night, whether it be through the players that were selected, the players that weren’t, or the multitude of trades that took place during the extravaganza.

However, a lot of noise was also coming out of the New England Patriots in Foxborough, although not necessarily in a good way. 

With their 1st pick in the draft, the 29th overall pick, they took guard Cole Strange out of the Univeristy of Tennessee-Chatanooga, a pick that certainly got an interesting reaction from LA Rams duo Sean McVay and Les Snead when they saw it announced:

Rams reaction to Patriots selection of Cole Strange at #29.This is hysterical. pic.twitter.com/ADzqt4lizQ

To top that off, in another seemingly weird move, they used a 4th round pick on quarterback Bailey Zappe from Western Kentucky, this despite having their franchise guy in Mac Jones already in place. 

Speaking to Colin Cowherd on The Herd, King went further than that with his comments about the pick, saying that the pick was ‘naive’ of them, before revealing what others around the league made of the decision before looking at the Partriots recent draft history overall:

‘This is a bizarre word to use for Bill Belichick, and I wrote this in my column, I thought that pick was naive. In the wake of Thursday night’s draft I talked to 25 people around the league, or texted with them…There’s not a soul who thought that was A) a smart pick or B) a guy who wouldn’t have been available, midway or late in the 2nd round’

‘I don’t understand why you would give 1st round value to a guy who most people think was a 3rd round