If the New England Patriots want to make the biggest splash of the offseason, it will take trading the No. 4 pick in the draft, as insider Tom Curran of NBC Sports Boston sees it.

The prize, of course, is landing Cleveland Browns star defensive end Myles Garrett, who announced his trade wishes on Monday. Garrett is the 2023 Defensive Player of the Year, a four-time All-Pro, and a six-time Pro Bowler.
“He would, to me, be worthy of considering giving up the fourth overall pick for,” Curran said during WEEI’s “Jones and Keefe Show” on Tuesday.
“Say Myles Garrett says, ‘I’ll go to this team, that team, that team, that team,’ and the Patriots are able to put a structure together, I would include the fourth overall pick for him and not bat an eye about paying him because he is that good,” Curran added.

The key part is “to put a structure together” because the Patriots have many roster holes amid back-to-back 4-13 seasons.
New England has a chance to turn things around quickly with an NFL-best $123.79 million in salary cap space, a seasoned new head coach in Mike Vrabel, and a promising quarterback in Drake Maye.
“I would move that pick because I don’t think you’re going to get a generational talent,” Curran explained. “I don’t think that generational talent really exists in every draft, just by the nature of the phrase, they’re not (there) all the time.”
Top prospects in the Patriots’ current draft situation include Colorado’s two-way Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, LSU offensive tackle Will Campbell, and Penn State edge Abdul Carter.
Any of those three would fill a position of need but are unlikely to achieve the level of success that Garrett has proven year in and year as Curran sees it.
“This is a pedestrian draft. I’d give up (the pick) for a player like Garrett,” Curran concluded.