Patriots’ new draft grading system among takeaways from NFL Combine originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The New England Patriots have a new man making roster decisions, and he’s implementing a new draft grading system.
The last five or six drafts have produced a couple good players for the Patriots, but these classes overall have been mostly underwhelming. For the Patriots to get back to contender status in the AFC, getting more talent out of the draft has to be a huge priority.
Eliot Wolf has taken over as the director of player personnel, and his front office is going to be using a draft grading system that’s different from what Bill Belichick used over the last 24 years.
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The new grading system was among Phil Perry’s key takeaways from Wolf’s presser at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Tuesday.
“(It was) interesting to hear because we have gone over this and over it and over it again this time of year, the last several years, the Patriots’ grading system under Bill Belichick,” Perry said on a new episode of the Next Pats Podcast.
“And we’ve done complete podcast episodes where for 20 minutes, I’ll break down for you what a Patriots grade would look like and what the numbers mean and what the lowercase letters and the capital letters and the color coding and all that goes into one little card next to a player’s name on their draft board. There’s a lot of information compiled into those cards, and if you’re not accustomed to seeing players graded that way, my guess is for scouts, it could be pretty complicated.
“They’ve changed that. They’re into a new grading system. Now it’s going to be closer to what Eliot Wolf and Alonzo Highsmith, now part of this Patriots front office as a senior personnel executive, were used to dealing with in Green Bay. So you’re going to have the Packer Way here in New England from a front office…
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