What's up everybody?

Welcome into the NextPats podcast.

I'm Phil Perry.

We've got another monster episode for you here this week on NextPats.

Lots to get to.

I've got a new Patriots- seven round mock draft where the Patriots

are wheeling and dealing in the first round. That is live on NBCSports Boston.com right now. We're

going to get into that. Give you all of our picks. They're hitting the offense and they're hitting

the offense hard, friends. Understandably so. I also have some best fits at running back I want to get to a couple of guys that I find to be just

tremendously entertaining to watch if nothing else.

Who knows if the Patriots will end up drafting a running back, especially early.

They have Remandre Stevens, and they have Antonio Gibson, but two of the most important

people in the organization have recently suggested that they might.

So it's on us to get into it and to get into some of the fits there.

And then we have a great conversation with NFL networks, analytics expert.

Cynthia Freeland, friend of the podcast, many times over now, always bringing interesting

and unique insight into this game that we all follow so closely.

And it extends into the draft as well.

Cynthia is always digging into her model, and she has all kinds of data that leads her to

figuring out best fits in the draft for all 32 teams.

So she has a mock draft out, which we're going to ask her about.

We're going to ask her about the chances of Travis Hunter getting to the Patriots.

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