Indeed, at their current positions (Nos. 23, 87, 98, 100, 125, 139, 172, 195, 204, 212, 213 and 230), only two players have been selected by Bill Belichick since 2000 within those parameters. It's really unusual, given all of the drafts that have taken place since the merger, that a team would land in the same positions so few times.
Almost every year that I covered the draft since 1977, I researched the Patriots' past picks and printed lists of the players selected at those positions. So, even though I will not be covering the 2020 draft (which begins tomorrow) for any news-gathering organization and thus will break a string of 43 years running, here's the list of who the Patriots picked at these 12 positions in the past. And yes, I understand that Belichick will probably trade out of several of these positions.
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| Bruce Armstrong |
No. 23
2018 -- OL Isaiah Wynn, Georgia1987 -- OT Bruce Armstrong, Louisville
No. 87
1988 -- NT Tim Goad, North Carolina
No. 98
1987 -- QB Rich Gannon, Delaware
No. 100
2005 -- OT Nick Kaczur, Toledo
1989 -- WR Michael Timpson, Penn State
1988 -- K Teddy Garcia, Northeast Louisiana
No. 125
1997 -- OT Ed Ellis, Buffalo
No. 139
1996 -- OG John Elmore, Texas
No. 172
1975 -- WR Lawrence Williams, Texas Tech
No. 195
1996 -- RB Mario Grier, Tennessee-Chattanooga
1995 -- RB Dino Philyaw, Oregon
1972 -- OG Steve Beyrle, Kansas State
No. 204
1992 -- RB Scott Lockwood, Southern California
No. 212
1981 -- TE Lin Dawson, North Carolina State
1973 -- OT David Callaway, Texas A&M
1970 -- DE Dennis Wirgowski, Purdue
No. 213
No previous picks.
No. 230
1997 -- OL Scott Rehberg, Central Michigan
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