Patriots prospect watch: End of the College Football regular season

Catching up with the top projected Patriots targets in the 2025 NFL Draft after the end of the college football regular season. The 2024 College Football regular season is officially in the books. While the conference championships and College Football Playoff still remain, for many prospects the book is now closed on the biggest part of the pre-draft process - actually playing the games. With the end of the season, some who aren’t getting postseason action have already started declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft. It’s been about two months since our last prospect check-in. Since then not much has changed in terms of the Patriots’ draft outlook, but new needs have emerged for the team and the players themselves have played significantly more football.  With four games left to go in their own season, the Patriots are currently slated to pick fourth in the upcoming NFL Draft. At this point it’s hard to see them falling beyond the top 10, so we have a pretty good idea of which prospects will be in play with their first-round pick.  Given that, let’s take a look at where some of the top prospects sit as their season comes to a close, or who has the most room to move in the CFP? We’ll have plenty of time to get into Days 2 and 3 in the coming months, but for now let’s go position-by-position through the top of the board - starting with arguably the Patriots’ biggest need… WATCH: Would Bill Belichick consider a move to College Football? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iestjSBmPF8 Click here to subscribe to the Sports Hub YouTube channel