The New England Patriots entered free agency among the league leaders in available resources, but ended up not making any splash outside acquisitions. Part of it had to do with a strategy focusing primarily on re-signings, but it is not hard to also question the attractiveness of the Patriots as a marquee landing spot in Year 1 of a major rebuild.
With Tom Brady long gone and Bill Belichick also out of the picture now, the team’s new head coach knows that finding those pull factors again will be crucial moving forward.
“When you go through the draft, you want to get guys that are magnets,” Jerod Mayo told reporters at the NFL annual meeting in Orlando, FL, last week.