2025 Patriots Draft

[YankeeRebel]

Free agency will determine what happens in the draft. Maybe more in 2025 than any year in the previous 10.

Much of the spending will be determined by the increase in the Cap. The 2024 cap was $225M. Six owners have openly supported a stationary cap of $300M this year through 2029. Several others have proposed a fixed 10% every year through 2029. The old guard wants to maintain an annual cap increase based on financial growth. Underlying consensus is that the league is trying to keep everything as is and that the raise in the 2025 cap will be anywhere between 12% and 20%. Hence, the belief is that it will be 15% or $33M raising the cap to $258.75M.

If that's anywhere near true, the Patriots will be sitting on $167M to spend in free agency. Every team will be required to spend around $232.5M.

May sound ridiculous, but given that amount of money, the Patriots cannot wait until day three to start spending money. They have got to start spending immediately after the Super Bowl trophy is handed to the winners.

We were talking about the Browns QB situation. We are all well aware of the Pats FA monies, not sure where your day three comment ties in?

 

[BigKen]

not sure where your day three comment ties in?

Just a reminder of the BB days when we were frustrated because he never jumped into the pool on the first day and always seemed to be looking at the leftovers late on day two or day three of the free agent scramble.

We are in a time where the Sunday commitments start hitting the wires about 5:00 PM and I for one bitched about the fact that no team could start talking to a player at 4:00 PM have a commitment by 5:00 PM with 31 other teams jumping into the pool at the same time. Now we all know that teams start calling agents and agents start calling teams about a half hour after the Super Bowl and work from there.

I'm just not 100% confident in Elliot Wolfe, but I am confident that Vrabel will not be sitting on his hands. This team cannot afford to allow history to repeat itself.