Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Clarity: New England Patriots’ Draft Pick Eli Raridon, Bust Concerns?

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

New England Patriots face scrutiny after selecting Eli Raridon amid bust concerns—can his college production translate to NFL success? Nick Cattles breaks down the Patriots’ draft strategy, examining how Raridon's Notre Dame numbers stack up against other 2026 tight end prospects. Discussion includes the impact of offensive schemes on tight end targets, Raridon's blocking versatility, and how injuries and scheme fit could influence his future in Foxborough. Cattles also unpacks Michael Onwenu’s return to the Patriots’ voluntary offseason program, addressing worries about contract-year motivation and the shaky interior offensive line depth behind him. The episode wraps with insider reactions to the surprise Karon Prunty pick, featuring assessments from NFL scouts and executives on his fifth-round value and potential. Is this Patriots draft class a foundation for long-term success or a risky bet? Get the latest analysis and predictions for the 2026 roster. Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms 🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts... Locked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft, & More 🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/leagues/... #patriots #newenglandpatriots Everydayer Club If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Square If you’re starting a business, or running one that deserves better tools, Square helps you sell, manage, and grow without slowing down. Right now, you can get up to $200 off Square hardware at https://square.com/go/LockedOnNFL. FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get one-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game. Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast. Rugiet Get 15% off your treatment → https://rugiet.com/lockedonnhl Rugiet. Performance medicine for men. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

There are some who have concerns that Eli Raritan could end up being a bust based on his Notre Dame career. I am not one of those people. This is Locked-on Patriots. You are Locked-on Patriots. Your daily New England Patriots podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. What's happening? I am your host, Nick Cattles.

On today's episode, a Pat's insider reveals how the NFL feels about the team's most controversial pick in this year's draft. In the second segment, some pretty big news has come out about one of the most important players on the 2026 roster. But first, I am not worried about Eli Raarden's transition to the NFL. Some have highlighted the lack of production from Eli Raarden at Notre Dame last season as one of the big concerns that they have. And they say maybe he'll be a boom or bust guy. Maybe he'll end up being a bust because really what did he do at Notre Dame? We've heard about the play strength. And that is a question.

I would have to imagine Rairdon will get stronger. He'll put on some weight. Of course, you've got the two ACLs. We've already talked about that. But looking at the production, I want to have this conversation. Is Eli Rairden going to be a bust because of his lack of production at Notre Dame last year? I think that's too dramatic. That is too dramatic of a picture to paint.

Let's look at the production. Rairden last season for Notre Dame finished with 32 catches, 482 yards, in no touchdowns. Now, this would be more alarming to me if it wasn't a fact that a lot of the tight ends drafted in the second and third rounds of the draft had similar production or lack thereof as Eli Rairden did.

I don't think this is an Eli Rairden problem. I think this is how college teams utilize the tight end position, which is they don't utilize it very often. But look at the 56th pick in the draft by the Jaguars, right? Nate Borkercher, he had 19 catches, 198 yards, and he had three touchdowns in one more game than Rerden played last season. So less than 20 catches, less than 200 yards. Then you go to the 59th pick made by the Houston Texans, Marlon Klein.

He finished last season with 24 catches, 248 yards in one touchdown. He played in one less game than Rared and played in. You want to jump to the 61st pick in the draft by the L.A. Rams, Max Clare, somebody we talked about in one of our mock drafts. Well, Max Clear was taken 61st by the Rams. Last year, 43 catches, 448 yards in two touchdowns. He played in two more games than Rairdon played in last season. The 69th pick went to the Chicago Bears, somebody else that we had a conversation about.

Sam Roush, 49 catches, 545 yards and two touchdowns. And finally, picked 73rd by the New Orleans Saints, Oscar Delp. We had a lot, a lot of conversation about Oscar Delp possibly being picked by the Patriots. He was a favorite of many. I like them a lot. Oscar Delp had 20 catches last year, 20 for 261 yards and one touchdown, and that was in two more games than Rared and played for Notre Dame a year ago. So look at those five tight ends, those five tight end prospects from the 2026 draft that were drafted post-Kinin Cedique in the first round and Eli Stowers at 54. Look at all of those.

The biggest numbers, Sam Roush, 49 catches 545 and two touchdowns. It's not like he's lighting the world on fire. This is a tight end in college problem more than it is the tight ends themselves. It's how these teams use these tight end prospects. So I'm not worried about it. If I was going to be worried about Eli Raarden's production, I would be worried about those five other guys and even more tight ends who were drafted in this year's draft.

I was watching Mike Dembrock, who was the offensive coordinator for Notre Dame and tight ends coach. He was on Phil Perry's Next Pat's podcast last week. And I watched that interview. And something that Mike Dembrok said reminded me of how the 2025 season unfolded for the Irish. And one of the things that Mike Dembrok mentioned was the fact that Eli Reardon, he had the opportunity to have three, four, five touchdowns, maybe even more last season, but he kept getting tackled inside the five. And when Mike Denbrock said that to Phil Perry, I did remember being a Notre Dame fan,

I did remember a couple of instances where he was stopped inside the five. But I went back, I looked at highlights. I looked at highlights from Raredons 2025. And I would say he was stopped inside the five yard line at least four or five times last year. So if he was just able to stumble forward another yard and a half, he might have had two touchdowns, three touchdowns, four touchdowns. But again, the production, when you compare his production to other tight ends in this draft, it's pretty much right in line aside from the top two guys,

which is why they went, where they went. Kenyon Sadiq and what he is capable of doing on a field, that's why he separated himself from every, else in this draft at that position. Eli Stowers, as we had the conversations about him and his style of play, he is more a wide receiver than he is tight end. And I'm not the only one to say that. Evan Lazzar has said that.

Plenty of other pundits have said that. But, you know, Sadiq, he had 51 catches, 560 yards and eight touchdowns. So it's not like there are a lot of these guys who are catching 75 footballs in a college season. I'm just not worried about it. And let's also look at Notre Dame and how their offense ran. You had Jeremiah Love, the third pick overall in the draft, and Judarian Price, the 32nd overall player picked in this draft.

You know, they scored a combined 34 touchdowns. Love and Price combined for 34 touchdowns. Five of those touchdowns were receiving touchdowns. So when you have a team that runs the football, when you have a team that has two first round picks at running back, on the roster. Guess what? Your tight end is not going to get a ton of opportunities inside the five as a receiver

because they're going to give the football to those running backs. And that's not just inside the five. That is the offense as a whole. C.J. Carr, first time starting quarterback last year for Notre Dame, in that offense, ebbs and flows. Ebs and flows of targets who they were throwing to, when they were throwing it to them, that they were continuing to figure it out,

as I have said. But I have a very interesting stat for you that would support what I have told you in prior podcasts. Pete Sampson of the Athletic wrote about C.J. Carr in the passing offense in his mailback. And here's what he wrote. I'm more interested in how much Notre Dame lets C.J. Carr throw the ball.

He's thought about 2026 coming up, right? I'm more interested in how much Notre Dame lets car throw the ball, even if most of the attempts come from 11 personnel, which is three receiver sets. CJ Carr's 24.4 pass attempts per game last season didn't feel like a lot. And as a matter of fact, that figure, CJ Carr's pass attempts per game ranked him 91st nationally among college football quarterbacks. Notre Dame didn't throw the football a ton.

They had some big plays and CJ Carr put up some big numbers against some bad defenses in the Texas A&M game week two, of course, that that was a shootout, a back and forth. But again, ebbs and flows. Malachi Fields would have a couple of games where he was there making an impact, a couple of games where he really wasn't. It was kind of the nature of the offense. So when you put that to go along with the running backs they had on the roster, to go along with how tight ends are utilized in college football, and some of the guys that were picked

before Eli Raarden went in the second round in early to mid third round. Yeah, I'm not worried about the production. I also think that Rairden is a better inline blocker than giving credit for. And I think he is improving, which means he has the ability to play, whether it's in 12 personnel or 13 personnel. You want to roll out two tight end sets. You can play Raarden in those two tight end sets because he can block.

You can play Henry and. Rairding because both of those guys can block. You can play Julian Hill as part of 13 personnel where you have two receiving tight ends and Julian Hill being the blocking tight end or you keep one of Rairden and Henry in along with Julian Hill and have two of them blocking and one guy running a route. So that versatility, Eli Rairden's ability to block in the fact that he is improving in that aspect of his game, I think is going to lend itself at the NFL level and he's going to be out there and he's going to be getting snaps. Now, is he going to get a lot of snaps in

2026? I don't know. But I think he has the versatility to play in those packages. And I think he's a great fit. As I've said, I'm not going to beat this point to depth. You know, he is a great fit in this Josh McDaniels offense. And of course, the ACLs, the typical injury caveat, if anybody gets hurt, their career could get derailed. But I really feel like Eli Raarden is a seven to eight year NFL tight end at least, as long as he stays healthy. And you got him in the third round. It's not like you drafted him in the first or the second. You got him towards the tail end of the third round.

So boom or bust, I feel better about him booming than busting. But no matter what, I think he's going to be a solid NFL tight end as long as he can stay healthy for a pretty long period of time, considering how long guys stay on the field in that sport. coming up a big name resurfaces at the Gillette facility quieting concerns about a possible holdout. For now, this is Lockdown Patriots, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. Now the number one sports podcast network, your team every day. The NBA playoffs are here and every possession matters. If you're looking to get even closer to the action, Fandul has a great offer for you to get started.

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subscribe, continue to like, continue to comment on these episodes. Appreciate every single one of you. Week one of the voluntary offseason program. Michael Wenu was not there. Mike Rees reported that Michael Wenu was not at the facility for the first week of the voluntary offseason program, which led me. I wanted to get to this last week. I never got to it because we had so much draft stuff to discuss. But when I saw that from Mike Reese, I did wonder, hmm, Michael Wenow's final year of his contract, could we have a holdout?

Could a Wenu hold out? Could he want an extension? Is this going to happen? Is this going to be a headache? Is he going to cause some kind of a problem? Well, the good news, according to Mike Rees, this week, Michael Wenu is at the facility. So Owenu is at the facility for week two of the voluntary offseason program.

And I think the Patriots need Michael Wenu to be sharp this season. And I'm talking about not just when they kick the ball off in September. I'm talking about camp, whether it's the voluntary program, mini camps, camp, all of it, joint. practices. Owenu needs to be sharp this season. The depth on the interior offensive line. It's questionable right now. You got Ben Brown, who I do think is a steady, solid backup. You've got Caden Wallace. We haven't even seen him play a single snap that matters at guard. of course he was drafted and he was supposed to be one of the future tackles of this team.

That didn't work out. They slid him inside the guard. We don't know if he can do much of anything on the interior. And when you look at Ben Brown, by the way, I would argue he's right now your top backup center option as well. So if Jared Wilson can't stay healthy and you've got to move Ben Brown to center, well, now it's like, Wallace or a bust at guard. So whether you go out and you try to find another center, whether you go out and you sign a veteran guard for some more insurance, right now, as far as players that we know that are on this roster that have played on the interior, Ben Brown, Caden Wallace, your top two backups. And if Ben Brown has to play center, Jared Wilson goes down.

He went down last year. Then you're left with Caden Wallace. Now, of course, of course, you could say maybe some of these tackles could slide inside. Now, whether or not you want to do that, I don't know. Like Caleb Lomu is somebody who's played strictly left tackle. I think he played like 30 something snaps on the right side at one point, but this is a guy that in college, he was a left tackle. That's what he played.

He played left tackle. and you're already looking at him sliding over to the right side, which is going to be a big transition. So do you really want to put him on the inside as well? Do you want to put even more on his plate? I would much rather the Patriots just focus on Lomu shifting the right tackle. So he can be ready if Morgan Moses goes down. He can be ready for 2027.

That's what I would want. I don't want to mess around too much with him. I go back to Elliott Wolf last year where he said they thought they thought they put too much on Jalen Polk's plate in his rookie season. Don't put too much on the plate of a rookie. You can mess them up mentally. He's already dealing with that transition from the left side or the right side. And offensive linemen will tell you it's like, you know, wiping your butt with the other hand.

It's a little weird. It's a little funky. Catches you off guard a little bit. So I don't know if Caleb Lomu is an option. James Hudson, who they signed right before the draft, he's a guy who's played tackle and tackle only in the NFL. So I don't know if he can slide to the inside. And let's just look at Mike Owenu beyond the contingency plans behind Owenu. Mike Owenu was your best offensive lineman over the final two plus months of 2025.

I thought he was your best, most consistent offensive lineman for the final two plus months. And so I want that guy to be good again. I want to feel like you're walking into 2026, and Michael Wenu is going to play more like he played the final two months of the season than he played early on in the season. And Morgan Moses, 35 years old, you might need more help on the right side. That makes Michael Wenu's performance that much more critical.

You can't have Morgan Moses starting to fall off the cliff if that's what happens. and Michael Wenu's play, take a step back because now you've got a problem on the right side. You got a problem on the right side. And you don't want to rush and move on from Morgan Moses if Caleb Lomu isn't quite ready to take over right tackle. You don't want to move on from Mike Owenu if you're not sure if you even have anybody who can play that position.

It's a very, very interesting situation with the Wenu. He has a $200,000 workout bonus, according to Mike Reese. And of course, you know, he has the history of not always showing up in shape. I wonder what type of shape, Owenu is going to be in. That's why I said, you know, even before September, when you start playing games that matter, you need Mike Owenu to show up to camp in shape, ready to roll. And maybe he'll have that motivation.

Contract year, maybe he walks out and he says, I'm ready to do damage. I am ready to be as good as I possibly can be. This is a guy who he got all pro votes last year, okay? He got some all pro votes. So he walks out there and he acts like a guy who got all pro votes a year ago, then you're in good shape. If he shows up like he has shown up in the past, not ready to roll, you might have a problem.

You might have, you know, a Wenu out of shape in Morgan, Moses 35 on the right side. That could cause some problems. And I don't know what Michael Wenow you're going to get. I don't know. Contract year with his history of not always being in shape. Are you going to get his best behavior, so to speak? Is he going to show up in shape?

Because he wants to prove to the Patriots. And if the Patriots aren't willing to give him an extension, he wants to prove it to another team that might be willing to give him a contract after he walks away from the paths following the 2026 season, does he want to show that he can be that guy? that he's going to take it seriously. He's going to show up in shape. Or is he just thinking about 2027 and not really worried about it or saying to himself,

I'll get into shape. I've done it before. I don't know. Will this become a little bit more of an issue regarding a holdout possibility? The closer we get to September. I don't know. It's something we've got to stick a pin in and be mindful of. And this is when you look at Mike Vrable, you know,

aside from the noise that has happened before the draft, you look at Vrable, and part of Mike Vrable, part of the best of Mike Vrable as a football coach, is his ability to get guys to buy in. And Owenu is going to be one of those guys this year that it's going to be absolutely pivotal that he buys in. His contract year, he's not worried about the money, he's not worried about any of that.

So you've got to make sure that he buys into 2026. because, you know, that contract coming up, you went to the Super Bowl last year, the expectations are high. Can you keep these guys grounded? Can you keep them focused? And Owenu is one of the top guys on my list that I'm looking at saying, we got to make sure that dude's on the same page as the football team. We've got to make sure that he's doing all the right things to be ready for the season. We've got to make sure that his contract status is not going to get in the way. Many people were shocked when the Pats picked Karan Prunty,

but were those in the NFL surprised? That answer is coming up next. This is Lockdown Patriots, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network, your team every day. Today's episode is brought to by Indeed. Filling an open position shouldn't feel like a shot in the dark when your inbox is overflowing and you're feeling the pressure. You need a system that works.

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would like it, quote unquote, the draft they had, but you have them as a C, a C minus. It feels like it just comes down to that Quran Prunty decision. It really does. Because I think people, look at that pick and say you were sitting around all day and that's the pick you made that you traded your two fourth round picks to move up and the first move up in the second and that's fine we sat around we sat through the fourth round we sat through most of the fifth round we're all excited and there are some good players left on our board maybe not your board patriots but our board had some good players and you pick karan brunti that's the pick you made it feels like most of the people that give the

the Patriots a grade of, you know, C or less, it's because of that. It's either that or you're just upset at what the Patriots did in the middle of the six round through the seventh round, which I've said before. I don't get all worked up about sixth and seventh round picks anymore. I just, I just don't. The vast, vast majority of those guys, like what, 99% of those guys don't work out. I need it, whatever it is. It's in the 90s.

So I don't really get worked up over that. So Quran Prunty, I do think kind of shifted. some people's thoughts about how good the draft was for the Patriots. And when you look at the Pat's approach, it's pretty simple to break it down the way I break it down when I look at this draft. It's mostly a three-player draft. If you're looking for legit contributors because of the Patriots approach, because of making those two trades to move up for Lomu,

to move up for Gabe Accus, you're mostly looking at a three-player draft. Now, that doesn't mean the guys that were picked in the fifth, sixth, seventh rounds, the UDFAs that they can't contribute. Certainly, you hope that you hit on one or a couple of those guys. But this draft is going to be remembered by what you did in the first, second, and third rounds and whether or not those players work out. This is, in essence, a three-player draft,

and anything beyond that is icing on the cake for the pads because of how they approach it. I would feel differently if they had those two fourth-round picks, but they didn't. So Doug Kide of the Boston Herald had a piece on Karan Prunty over the last few days. And here's what Doug Kide wrote. What did the rest of the NFL think of the pick? Quote, we didn't do much honestly, unquote. An AFC assistant general manager responded when asked how much he studied Pronti.

Now, as Kide points out, Pronti was 512 on a consensus draft board assembled by wide left's Arif Hassan. Elliot Wolf, if you remember, we talked about this, told Todd McShay at the Combine that the Patriots usually have around 200 players on their board. So obviously the Patriots did not feel like Karan Prunty was the 512th best player in this draft. An NFC West executive saw Prunty as a, quote, great profile to take on day three, unquote. He followed that up by saying, big athletic corner and had that highly productive year at Kansas just needs to recapture that. An AFC front office executive liked Karan Prunty as a day three prospect.

Quote, tested well, tape kind of sneaks up on you, unquote. An NFC South Scout had a priority free agent grade on Pronti. Quote, I like the length and athleticism at that size. Leanor guy, but plays with adequate play strength and is a competitive and willing tackle it. Some hitch to his transitions and average lateral balance in man, but lengthen speed to recover. sounds like they valued the dimensions more than I did. I thought he was functional, incapable of earning a practice squad spot,

lower probability to make a team, but maybe higher if the cornerback room is thin, unquote. Kai wrote that, you know, Prunty also, as noted by this scout, there could be some character questions regarding Prunty's path to the NFL. He began at Kansas. He initially planned to transfer to South Carolina. he wound up at North Carolina A&T before transferring again to Wake Forest. And Prunty told the local media that he transferred from Kansas because of coaching issues.

So look, the point of this whole story, the point of this segment is not everybody agrees on Karan Pronti. And even though there were some punts going, this is a crazy pick. And there were people going, Karan, who? That guy didn't even have a write-up in Dame Bruegler's beast this year. That's true. But you just heard in the Doug Kide piece at the Boston Herald, multiple guys in the NFL, multiple personnel people in the NFL saying, oh, yeah, day three pick, day three profile, because of his traits, because of the character questions, you know, the risk reward that you have when you're talking about later in the fifth round.

You get to the sixth round, the seventh round. But when you got scouts and some personnel, people saying, no, he fits a day three profile. I had a day three great on him. So not everybody in the NFL was shocked that Karan Prunty was drafted. I don't even think a lot of, you know, I don't even think there were people, or at least there were some people who weren't shocked he was taken in the fifth round, towards the tail end of the fifth round. Multiple teams had Karan Pronti as a day three guy per this Doug Kide story.

So it doesn't feel like inside the league, at least for some teams, that this was viewed as some kind of crazy pick by the pads. Other reasons to use the fifth round pick on Pronti, you wonder. Well, Doug Khyde wrote a scout theorized on the Patriot selection, quote, they probably got low on draft graded prospects and he was a commodity in early priority free agent recruiting. Cheaper that way than waiting post draft to sign. So instead of giving him a bonus or a bigger bonus as a UDFA guy, they just said,

we're going to take the pick. We're going to take the pick late in the fifth round. We're going to bring them in. You don't have to worry about that UDFA bonus money. stuff. We don't have to worry about fighting other teams for him. And I had mentioned that. You know, you get to the six round, seventh round. A lot of times you're drafting these guys because you have them on your, you know, priority free agent list, but you don't want to battle other teams. So you make the pick. That guy is, you know, he is your property and NFL contract status.

So you make a lot of those picks because of that. And so when, when you, when you, you, you look at it, there's a lot of different reasons why you could pull the trigger on a pick like that. That's why you go back to some of the Belichick stuff, picking guys in the second round that weren't seen as, you know, fourth round talents. People thought they'd go on the fifth or six rounds, somebody like Jordan Richards. That's just such a huge swing in a miss because of where you invested the pick and eventually the money that you sign that guy for. My initial thought remains about Karan Pronti. You know, the pick was right before the fifth round compensatory picks.

Patriots took a shot on a guy they like. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. But at the end of the day, that is not a make or break pick. That wraps up this edition of Lockdown Patriots. Thank you for making us your first listen for being an everydayer. Reach out to me on Twitter at Nick C Radio.

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