Locked On Patriots - Daily Podcast On The New England Patriots - Patriots Strike: Gabe Jacas Brings Violence, Eli Raridon Brings Potential

Episode Date: April 26, 2026

New England Patriots strike gold in the NFL Draft, making bold moves to secure edge rusher Gabe Jacas and tight end Eli Raridon—two potential game-changers for their evolving roster. Did the Patriots outmaneuver the competition for Jacas, and could Raridon become one of Drake Maye’s top weapons? Nick Cattles breaks down the team’s aggressive second-round trade, the Matthew Judon vibes from Jacas, and why Raridon’s athletic prowess might reshape the Patriots’ offense. Key analysis includes a closer look at Day 3’s controversial picks, with Karon Prunty’s selection raising eyebrows and Dametrius Crownover emerging as a possible late-round steal. Discussions center on positional needs at cornerback, linebacker depth, and how the Patriots' focus on traits and upside reflects a new era under Mike Vrabel. Can these rookies make an immediate impact and help power New England back to contention? Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms 🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/podcasts/locked-on-patriots/ Locked On NFL League-Wide: Every Team, Fantasy, Draft, & More 🎧 https://lockedonpodcasts.com/leagues/nfl/ #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! 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/lockedonnfl Rugiet. Performance medicine for men. 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.

The Pats hit a home run in the second round and added one of my favorites in this draft in round three. 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 Cattels. On today's show, day three, saw a near universal reach in the fifth, but a possible steal in the sixth.

In our second segment, the round three pick that made me nearly faint. But first, the Pats had to address edge, and that's precisely what they did in round two. Round two was a carbon copy of round one. Get aggressive for someone that you love at a position of need. We saw it in day one with Caleb Lomu, the tackle, Patriots move up to 28, draft Lomu. Day two, we see the same thing happen in the second round. As a matter of fact, you go back to our mock draft, one of them that we did a few weeks ago. And one of the moves that we made, this is kind of eerie, is that we moved up in round two,

trading with the Los Angeles Chargers to draft an edge. Now, at that time, we drafted Malachi Lawrence. As we know by now, Malachi Lawrence, well gone, well gone by the time you hit the second round in reality. But the Patriots, they made the phone call to the chargers. They made the trade. They moved up to 55 and they drafted an edge. On Friday night, the Patriots sent the 63rd pick, the 131st pick, and the 2002nd pick to the Chargers for pick 55 and drafted Gabe Accus edge out of Illinois. Now, the first thing I'll say about this move, I loved the strategy by the Patriots because I believe the Patts thought that the Chicago Bears were going to draft Accus at 15.

See, Chicago, they needed an edge going into this draft. And what better edge that you could draft if you were the Bears than your hometown boy, Gabe Accus from Illinois, right? Playing at Illinois. It just makes all the sense in the world. So I believe the Patriots got aggressive, made this trade, got up to 55 leapfrogging the Bears to draft who the Bears were targeting at edge. That is reading the board. that is utilizing the intel that you have and having good intel and being decisive to pull the trigger on a trade

when you have to go get your guy. Gabe Accus, he's got Matthew Judon vibes. Now, I know he talked about that after being drafted. I know that is Lance Zerlind's professional comp for Gabe Acus in his scouting report, but he really does. He gives you those Matthew Judon vibes. Accus turns 22 years old next month. So he is still very young.

6.3.5 inches is his height, 260 pounds, 33 inch arms. He is sculpted. He looks like an NFL player. He looks like an NFL edge. He passes, as they say in pro wrestling, the airport test. When you see him walking through the airport, you know he does something for a living that stands out. That is Gabe Accus. And when you want to talk about Mike Vrable type players, you know, Caleb Lomu, not necessarily a Mike Vrable type player, we mentioned that on Thursday night after the first round of the draft. He's not necessarily nasty. He doesn't play with a ton of finish. Now, he might be able to get there at some point, but that's not what Caleb Lomu does. Well, you look at Gabe Accus, and he is your quintessential Mike Vrable football player. He is incredibly violent. How many times have we said that word since Vrable took over?

Terrell Williams, Vrable, the entire defensive staff, they love saying that they want violence. from their defensive players. And that is exactly what Acus is. He is violent. He has an incredible bull rush. He is certainly physical. He will just throw dudes aside from time to time when you see some of his best reps at the collegiate level.

He is relentless, relentless in his pursuit. Again, effort and finish. Effort, finish, violent, physical. That is Gabe Acis. Speed to power rush is rather obvious. The other thing that Accus does really well is he runs stunts well. Now, when Draymont Jones signed with the Patriots and free agency last month, we mentioned that Jones, he's really good at stunting. And so that's something the Patriots

defense obviously wants to lean in on in 2026 with their pass rush. I think you're going to see a lot more stunts than you saw, especially early in 2025. You go out, you sign Draymont Jones. He majors in stunting. Akis, good when he runs stunts. Just NFL build for. from head to toe. Big quads, upper body, the arms, pretty much everything, right? And he is, he is a playmaker. At least he was a playmaker in college. A number of tackles for loss, forced fumbles. So he makes plays in the backfield. And I think he does have three down potential. And when you look at this draft, as we've talked about the quote unquote flavor draft, it's difficult to look at these edge prospects that were just taken over the weekend.

It's really difficult to find edges that have three down potential. And I think Acus has that three down potential. Dane Brugler and the Beast wrote how Acis is a quote unquote workaholic. So the work ethic is through the roof. We should kind of already know that just based on the fact that he was a high school wrestler. wrestlers are known for their work ethic, their diligence, right? A lot of wrestlers, they work their butts off. If you want to wrestle in high school and college, you've got to work your butt off.

And as Dan Bruegler also pointed out, Akis has a little bit of an alpha to him. He's the guy who walks in the room and wants to dominate that room, which is a good thing. He's a tone setter. Now, he's not perfect. There are some questions. You know, when you look at Accus, he's athletic. He is athletic. He had a 9.59 relative athletic score,

but he's more athletic straight ahead. He doesn't have tons of bend, as they say, around the corner. We've talked about guys like Cassius Hobble, who has just crazy bend. Armason Thomas has that crazy bend around the edge. That's not really what Accus brings to the table. So he's straight line athletic, but doesn't have that bend.

And he's also, I wouldn't say he is, you know, sudden with his athleticism. People would not describe him as twitchy. We talk about twitchy athletes. That's become one of the words that we throw around a ton during the draft. Well, Accus is not twitchy. He's not a sudden athlete. He did not partake in any agility drills, which I think is something we have to store in the back of our minds, right?

Like if you're not known for Twitch, you're not known for bend, you're not known for being sudden, well, then you don't run agility drills because they're probably not going to end up looking too good for you. So he is an athlete, but it's more again, straight line athleticism. And that's why you get the speed to power rush. He's also inconsistent setting the edge. Again, I do think that he has three down potential, but he has shown some inconsistencies setting the edge in college. it's not that he can't do it. He just doesn't always do it, which you know, you would hope that the more time he gets coached,

the more time he spends in the NFL, he will get to more consistency defending the run. One of the biggest issues people will tell you about ACUS is his discipline, not off the field, and not discipline as far as, you know, punching people in the face or grabbing their face masks. It's more discipline awareness. His eyes getting lost, right?

Not always keeping in mind the assignment. He can get lost at times. So the discipline, awareness, that needs to improve. And I talked about this right after ACUS was drafted by the Patriots on Friday night. I did a quick little four or five minute video on ACUS. And, you know, the rush plan and the variety. Like there's a number of things that he can do, especially with his hands, his technique. And he does have a few different moves.

But Lance Zerlian pointed this out. He tends to, Gaybackus tends to get a little monotonous and predictable against tackles in his rush. You know, a lot of speed to power again, right? A lot of the bull rush stuff. So he might have to add to his bag if he wants to be productive at the NFL level when you talk about sacks. He was productive at college. But can he vary his rush attack enough to beat tackles in the NFL? Can he find an inside counter more often against these tackles in the NFL?

But all in all, I really like the pick. I really like the pick. I love the aggressiveness. And I think Accus comes in. He challenges Elijah Ponder immediately for that third edge spot for 2026. And now you've got Draymont Jones, Harold Landry. and then you've got the battle between Accus and Ponder. Whoever wins that, I think will get more snaps.

And potentially, depending on what happens with Landry after 2026, potentially, again, don't forget, Draymond Jones is also near 30 years old. Potentially, I think Accus is one of your starting ends maybe as soon as 2027. So, you know, I really liked it. I thought it was a home run when you combine the process and the player. and I really think he can make a difference for this football team this season. He's not captain developmental. So I thought it was a great job by the Patriots in round two.

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Your thoughts on the Gabe Accus pick in the second round. For months, for months, I have been talking about Eli Rairden. He is one of my favorites in this draft. And I'm telling you right now, I went on this rant on the Greg Bedard Patriots podcast on Friday towards the tail end of that episode. I went on a little bit of a rant about Eli Raarden and how I thought he was somebody who had tons of potential and could help the Patriots. And he was one of the tight ends that I really wanted the Patriots to pick.

And I would say he's been my binkie. And if you've been following along, you know that. He's been my binkie. And I'm sitting there on Friday night and I'm watching the draft with Kelly. Dion Branch is up there and he's doing his whole spiel and he's got his arms flying around and he's holding the draft card. And I had said to Kelly before, before Branch went up there, if the Patriots, they have an opportunity to draft Eli Raarden.

If they draft Eli Raiden, I might pass out. I tweeted the same thing at Nick C. Radio. I might faint if they draft Eli Raarden. And I'm watching Deion Branch yap up at the podium. And he's, again, his arms are. are flailing around and I see the draft card and I'm not kidding you. I read the name. I could see that it was Eli Reardon.

And as soon as I saw that facing the camera, I went bananas. I absolutely love this pick. I think Reardon, as you know, as I just said a moment ago, I think he has huge potential. And before I get into Raarden's tools and all of that, I just want to explain why I think Rairden has a lot of untapped potential. Notre Dame. I'm a Notre Dame fan. And I watched Notre Dame every week this past football season. And their young quarterback, C.J. Carr, who has an opportunity to possibly be in the top three of next year's draft.

CJ Carr, young player, young quarterback, first time starter. And C.J. Carr in the passing offense, they took a little while to figure things out last season. And when you watch game one against Miami, you watch game one against the Miami Hurricanes last year for Notre Dame. Mike Dembrock, the OC at Notre Dame, called a ton of screens and super short passes. And that just told you they did not trust the quarterback in week one. And they slowly,

they slowly started to trust C.J. Carr, towards the end of the year, he stumbled a little bit. but for a major chunk of the season, CJ Carr got going and the passing game started to figure itself out. Even like Malachi Fields, I would tell you, Malachi Fields was pretty quiet for the majority of the season. And then it felt like over the past, I don't know,

like over the last four to six weeks of the season, Malachi Fields started to make plays. And he started to be a difference maker. So I just think when you combine that with the fact that Notre Dame had Jeremiah Love and Janarian Price at running back. Two guys who went in the first round of this year's draft. And Jeremiah Love, I would argue, is the best player in this draft. The fact that they had those two running backs running the football a decent amount

and how they had to progress within the passing offense because of the young quarterback, I just don't think Eli Raarden got as much buzz throughout the season because he wasn't getting as many targets. You know, they were trying to all figure it out and what their roles were. But I really think Eli Raarden has that potential, man. He's 22 years old, 6-6-250, gigantic hands, 10 and 3 quarter-inch hands. I mean, just gigantic hands.

Super athlete, 9.46, relative athletic score, 81 out of 1,471, tight ends measured since 1987. His agility is good. It's not great, but it's good. Again, he's more kind of a straight line athlete, but he's got good agility, not great agility. But when you look at some of the numbers, Phil Perry posted this on Friday night,

40-yard dash 462, 81st percentile, 36-inch vertical, 81st percentile. Raarden's broad jump was 10 foot three inches. That's the 88th percentile for tight ends. So he has the explosiveness. He's got the straight line speed for his size. And I just think he is a great fit for Josh McDaniels and Drake May with this Patriots offense. What they want their past catching tight ends to do, he does.

You know, Eli Rairding can get down the seam as good as anybody. He will attack the seam. And we know Josh McDaniels loves the play action to the seam throw to the tight end. So Rairding can get down on the seam. He runs slot fades. He runs, you know, deeper crossing routes, which we have seen in this offense time and time again. And maybe the best thing about Rarden as a receiver is he can get downfield. He gets downfield.

He's got good hands. He makes plays downfield. He makes contested catches. I mean, he's got those big hands. He gets physical at the top of the route. And he can make the contested catches. He's got that big time catch radius. So when we think about Drake May, we think about what Mike Vrain's.

Abelis has mentioned with his past catchers, right? Catch radius, contested catches. That is Eli Rairdon. That's what he can do. Make contested catches. Get downfield. Make those plays with a big catch radius. Those slot fades, crossers, seam routes.

That's what he can do. But that's not all he can do. He also can eat. And he did eat at times at Notre Dame. He can eat in the intermediate areas, the hash marks versus zone. coverage. And that's another thing that we've seen the Patriots rely on with this Josh McDaniel's offense with their tight ends. How many times have you seen Hunter Henry intermediate hash area

against zone coverage, right? Pick up seven, eight yards, move the chains. Rairding can do that. So he can do that. And he can also help you downfield. And I believe Rairden, his inline blocking is getting better. And it's been improving. And I think he has even more room for growth when it comes to the blocking aspect of the game. So you just combine all of that. He's got above average strength. And again, I gave you the percentiles from Phil Perry. He's got the explosiveness.

Now, what are the questions? The questions are first and foremost health, not one but two ACL tears in his right name. I will say, you know, those ACL tears happened a few years back. Happened during his senior year in high school when he was playing basketball. and then it happened again to him in his freshman year at Notre Dame. But since then, you know, you look at the last two years. He played in all 28 games for the Irish the last two years.

And Elliot Wolf said that the Patriots ran Eli Raarden through a medical evaluation at his top 30 visit. So they feel good about the knee. But that is a big question. Two ACL tears in that right knee. He's also a little light in the took-took. He needs to add 10 to 15 pounds. You want him to get to 260, 265.

Again, he's 250. He is inconsistent in past protection. Again, I think he will get better at that as he matures. As a football player, he missed that chunk of time because of those two ACLs. And I just think he's the perfect dude. He will learn under the Hunter Henry learning tree. And I just, I love the pick. Absolutely love the pick.

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Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire. This is a job for Indeed, sponsor jobs. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Well, day three was interesting. Day three was interesting. Because of the trade in the first round,

because of the trade in the second round, the Patriots had no fourth round picks, which obviously changed their strategy, change their ability to hit certain positions, changed their opportunity to land some talented guys. But I don't hate on it at all because, again, I love the aggressiveness in the first round. I love the aggressiveness in the second round.

Part of that is you've got to give something up. So no fourth round picks after that Gabe Accus deal on Friday night. And so we're talking about, you know, the second to last pick in the fifth round or whatever through the seventh round. And honestly, I say this every year, folks, who knows? When you get to this point of the draft, who knows? You don't know if any of these guys are going to work out. There's a reason why they fall to the late fifth, sixth, and seventh rounds.

And this really is the area that you trust your scouts, you trust your evaluations, you trust your board, and you pick who you love. And especially in this draft, when the talent pool was not necessarily, awesome. It wasn't super deep as we know. You trust your scouts. So I don't know if any of these guys are going to work out. That's the nature pretty much every year in the draft when you talk about this area, but especially this season. So or this draft year. So fifth round pick, Karan Pronti, cornerback, Wake Forest. I was surprised the Patriots went with a corner before they went with an interior offensive line and a guard. I was surprised they went with a corner over a linebacker

in this spot. I was surprised they went with a corner over a safety in this spot. Pronti is mostly an outside cornerback. He played a lot of snaps on the outside for Wake Forest. Dame Bruegler did not have him getting drafted. He had Karan Pronti as a UDFA, an undrafted free agent. So, you know, there are a lot of people saying, look, this was a major reach. And when you look at consensus boards, when you look at the fact that, you know, Dame Bruegler did not even have a right up. the beast for Karan Pronti. It's no doubt, according to analysts and pundits, it's no doubt a reach.

That doesn't matter to the Patriots, but no doubt this was seen as a reach. 6 foot 2, 190 pounds. The relative athletic score is an 8.65, which puts Pronti 415th out of over 3,000 cornerbacks since 1987 with that RAS. He's got great speed. 44540. He's got great agility. His three cone was a 6.82.

We talked about three cone when it came to edge rushers. That's short area quickness. So he's got great agility and great speed. He's not very explosive. At 6-190, you know, he had a 33-inch vertical. When you think about that, Eli Raarden last segment, right? We're talking about a guy who was, you know, 6-2-50 had a 36-1-30. vert. Pronti, who's four inches shorter and, you know, 60 pounds lighter had a 33 inch vertical,

three inches shorter than Rairdens, 10 foot three inch broad jump. Now, Mark Daniels posted on Pronti's 2025. And by the way, Pronti is 24 years old, so he is an older, quote, unquote, prospect. One pick, eight past breakups, PbUs last year for Wake Forest, eight career Pre-Futball focus had Pronti ranked as the 12th best cornerback in coverage in the country this year. He allowed 44% catch rate, which was second best in the ACC. Taylor Kyle's posted like Craig Woodson. Pronti brings experience, ball skills, blitzing ability at a spot with an aging veteran in-depth concerns, which we've talked about, Carlton Davis, Christian Gonzalez.

Per pro-football focus, Pronti has 24 PbUs, three sacks, two force fumbles since 2020, and he has allowed a 79.8 passer rating that was last season he did, which is pretty darn good. Evan Lazar mentioned that Prunty played some safety at Wake Forest. Pronti mentioned with the media that he has experience as a gunner, jammer, safety on kick coverage team, so you could expect him to have a role on special teams. Mike Giardi got a text from a scout on Pronti that said got a lot of tools, but a hard kid to get a handle on. The results should be better for the athlete that he is.

so maybe the Patriots can get more from him, figure out how he's wired. Taylor Kyle's again on Pronti, Patriots cornerback coach Justin Hamilton recruited him out of high school when the coach was at Virginia Tech. So Patriots have a lot of info on this guy because Justin Hamilton was recruiting him in college. So that might make you feel pretty good. Six round pick, Demetrius crown over. This was somebody who a lot of people thought would go in the fourth round. So maybe that makes you feel a little bit better about the prunty pick. Offensive tackle, A&M, he's just a huge human being,

6-7, 319. His arm length is outrageous. 35 and 3 eighth inch arms. His wingspan is 86 inches. He is the antithesis of Will Campbell. Good power, pretty good at climbing to the second level. Greg Bedard mentioned that, you know, Crownover has some nasty to his play.

The interesting thing about Demetrius Crownover is he was originally a tight end. that transition to a tackle. So he's still pretty raw. He's still learning the position. Ryan Cowden mentioned on Saturday that he believes crown over can play both right and left tackle. Ran a 514, 5144, which is pretty good for a guy who was, you know, 320 pounds and 6 foot 7. His relative athletic score, 767, that is 385 out of 1,645 out of 1,645,

offensive tackles since 1987. And again, the consensus big board had cron over at number 124. The Patriots get him at 196. The two bigger questions outside of just him being kind of raw is he's 25 years old in September, 25 years old. So if he's going to impact your team, he's got to impact it quickly. And because he's so raw, you know, you might not get much of anything out of crown over until he's, you know, 26, 27 years old.

So that scares some teams away. He also had 11 penalties, which is a ton. 11 penalties in 2025. But I really like the pick. Another six-round pick is Nomdi Obi-Izor, a linebacker from TCU. OBIZor is 6 foot 2-2-30. So he's light in the Tuk-tuk at 230 pounds.

9.14 relative athletic score, which is 302nd out of only. almost 3,500 linebackers since 1987. He's got great explosivity, 37-inch vertical. He has elite speed, 45340. He also had a 1-5-6-10-yard split, which is pretty outrageous. But his agility is just okay. So again, we're talking kind of change-of-direction, short area quickness.

His agility's okay, elite speed, great explosivity. He's got a high motor. He's good against the run. Ryan Cowden mentioned special teams, which I do think might make us believe maybe the Patriots don't look at Nomdi Obisor as like a dude who's going to step in and play a decent chunk of linebacker snaps this year.

When Ryan Cowden comes out and mentions special teams first and foremost, feels like that's probably what they are pegging OBIsor for in 2026. Doesn't mean he can't grow. He's certainly. He certainly, you know, could grow into a bigger role, might end up being a Mike linebacker. We'll see.

Andrew Callahan on OBI, B.I. Zor, the Herald wrote on the surface, the Patriots addressed another need by adding OBIZor to their linebacker room, which need a depth. But is he the coverage linebacker they should have been chasing? OBIZor graded out as a run first player at pro football focus and evaluators question his ability to diagnose plays and react quickly. Again, maybe the Patriots feel like they can coach that part up. But he does have the athleticism, the speed, and the explosiveness, not as great agility. But he's a guy that can move around. And, you know, again, he's light at 230 pounds,

which really dings his relative athletic score, by the way. The weight really, really dings that RAS because of his position. We'll get to the rest of the draft, by the way. We'll get to the rest of this draft class, some of the UDFAs this week. But overall, I think, you know, rounds one through three really, really good. I was extremely happy with rounds one through three. I love the Demetrius crown over pick where they got him.

I agree with Ryan Cowden who said, you know, if you're going to have one room that's got a ton of people in it, might as well be offensive tackle. Can't agree more with that. I mean, if you're going to have one crowded room, let it be tackle. We've talked about how difficult it is to find tackles in football now. So you've got Campbell, you've got Moses, you've got Lomu, you've got Crown Over, you've got Marcus Bryant,

you've got James Hudson who you signed. So there's a number of dudes in that room, and I don't mind that at all. Prunty, he was a reach, but at least it was a reach in the fifth round. All right, that wraps up this edition of Lockdown Patriots. Thank you for checking us out, being an everydayer. Reach out to me on Twitter at Nick C Radio, like, comment, and sub. And also check out the Everydayer Club, Lockdownpatriots. com.

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