What's up, everybody?

Welcome into the NextBats podcast.

I'm Phil Perry.

It is a Caleb Williams week here on NextBats and on NBCSportsBoston.com because we are going to have our next edition of our

mock draft series coming at you online this week. And this week, what do the Patriots do?

They're trading up to number one overall from number three to draft the presumed top choice

in this year's draft,

USC quarterback Caleb Williams.

Now, why would I have the Patriots doing this?

Well, let's peel back to curtain a little bit here and just let you know.

As I have in my writing, as we've written these mock drafts,

I want to attack these moks from a variety of different angles so that we're

covering our bases with a number of different scenarios between now and the start of the draft.

If we were to just keep the Patriots at three overall and just assume that they're drafting

a quarterback at three overall, we're just basically going to bounce back and forth between

Jaden Daniels and Drake May for three months. And nobody wants that, quite frankly. And it's not

all that interesting. So what we're doing this week is we are having them execute what I believe

is an unbelievable, literally unbelievable trade, which would be pick number three overall, pick number 34 overall,

and pick number 68 overall, the Patriots first, second, and third round picks.

You'd be sending those to Chicago for their number one overall choice for the right to draft

Caleb Williams. In my opinion,

they shouldn't do it. In my opinion, they won't do it. Still, I think it's fair to play this game

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