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Two decades of decisions graded correct on the day they were made, which is how a dynasty actually gets built. Drake Maye has grown into precisely what Foxborough hoped for, and A.J. Brown gives him something genuinely unfair to aim at. Young, cheap where it counts, and climbing.
The fantasy roster, best rated first
Fantasy-relevant players only. Quarterbacks, backs, receivers and tight ends, which is what HexMetrics prices. 1 of them sit inside the league's top 25, 2 inside the top 50, 5 inside the top 100.
How roster strength is built: the seven slots behind 81.7
HexScore rates a player against others at his own position, so the seven below are not added up: each is weighted by what its slot is worth to an offence, and the weights are in the last column.
The case for the 2026 season
The strongest skill group in the league on this measurement, behind the twenty-ninth-ranked line
New England rate 81.7 for roster strength, which is 2 of 32 and therefore first. The number is built on a quarterback rating 96.0 at his position and a receiver at 98.0, both inside the league's top 100, with two backs above 86.8 behind them. Against that: an offensive line ranked 29 of 32 and a Team Power of 75, 19 of 32. The skill group is not the constraint here and has not been the thing this market argues about.
Grade the roster as it was assembled
Seven slots, in the order the club figure weights them. Quarterback 96.0, first receiver 98.0, first back 88.2, tight end 78.4, second receiver 63.6, flex 27.9, second back 86.8. No slot below fifty. That is the entire reason this club rates where it does, and it is a roster-construction outcome rather than a talent windfall.
12 players are rated here against a league average of 14.3, so this is not a deep roster in the counting sense. It is an evenly built one. Six clubs carry more rated players and every one of them rates lower, which is what happens when a figure stops rewarding a long tail and starts asking who actually plays.
The asset this club is currently holding
A quarterback rating 96.0 against other quarterbacks, 28 of 457, at 24 years old. My standing position is that a young quarterback on a rookie contract is the single most valuable asset in professional football and that most rosters waste the window. The window is open here and it is being used, which after the last several years is worth putting in writing without a qualifier attached.
Pass efficiency reads 0.89, the highest of the 32 clubs. I read efficiency before volume, always, and I think target counts are the most over-quoted number in the sport, so that figure carries more weight with me than anything else on the page. The quarterback rating input in the scheme profile reads 0.5, which is a different measurement on a different basis, and the gap between those two is the honest uncertainty in this case.
The acquisition I would have graded differently
A.J. Brown rates 98.0, 19 of 457, and is 29. I am sceptical of veteran receiver acquisitions as a fix for a passing offense, on the view that the problem is usually upstream of the catch, and this roster is a clean test of exactly that: the line ranks 29 of 32, which is as far upstream as it gets.
So the model and I disagree, and the model is holding the better hand at the moment. It has priced a receiver room that rates 98.0 and 63.6 at the two starting spots and it does not care what I think the mechanism is. If the line holds, my objection was noise. If it does not, 98.0 at receiver will not save a season, and neither of us will have to wait long to find out which.
The claim, and its stated limit
Strength of schedule ranks 2 of 32 counting easiest first, the second-softest slate in football. 15 of 17 games are outdoors and the bye falls in week 11. The value-weighted age is 26.7, 20 of 32, with 35.4% of the rated talent under twenty-five.
The case is that the two hardest things to acquire, a quarterback and a first receiver, are both already here and both rate inside the top 100 of 457 players, and the thing that is missing is a line, which is the thing a club can buy. The case against it is on the same page and I am not going to bury it: Team Power reads 75 at 19 of 32 because it reads the line and the defense as well as the skill players, and it is describing a club that is good rather than one that is finished. Both numbers are correct. They are measuring different halves of a football team.
The club record
82 players. Read from www.patriots.com on 2026-10-28. Not a HexMetrics rating: this is what the club publishes.
Coaching staff
29 coachesHead Coach
- Head CoachMike Vrabel
Assistant Head Coach
- Assistant Head CoachTerrell Williams
Offense
- Offensive CoordinatorJosh McDaniels
- Tight Ends / Passing Game CoordinatorThomas Brown
- Offensive Line AssistantJonathan Decoster
- Running BacksTony Dews
- Wide ReceiversTodd Downing
- QuarterbacksAshton Grant
- Assistant Offensive LineJason Houghtaling
- Offensive AssistantChuckie Keeton
- Offensive AssistantRiley Larkin
- Offensive AnalystCharles London
- Offensive LineDoug Marrone
Defense
- Defensive CoordinatorZak Kuhr
- SecondaryScott Booker
- Inside LinebackersVinny DePalma
- Defensive AssistantBJ Edmonds
- CornerbacksJustin Hamilton
- Defensive LineClinton McMillan
- Defensive AssistantKevin Richardson
- Outside LinebackersMike Smith
Special Teams
- Special Teams CoordinatorJeremy Springer
- Assistant Special TeamsTom Quinn
Strength And Conditioning
- Director of Sports PerformanceFrank Piraino
- Strength and ConditioningBrandon Martuccio
- Strength & ConditioningDeron Mayo
- Strength and ConditioningBrian McDonough
Football Operations And Strategy
- Vice President of Football Operations and StrategyJohn Streicher
- Director of Coaching AnalyticsEkene Olekanma
Read from www.patriots.com on 2026-10-28.
Depth chart
Offense
- WR
- LT
- Will Campbell
- Dametrious Crownover
- LG
- Walter Rouse
- Matt Pryor
- C
- Jared Wilson
- Ben Brown
- RG
- Ben Brown
- Walter Rouse
- RT
- Morgan Moses
- Caleb Lomu
- TE
- Hunter Henry78.4
- Eli Raridon5.8
- Tanner Arkin
- Cameron Latu
- WR
- DeMario Douglas27.9
- Kyle Williams17.5
- WR
- RB
- Rhamondre Stevenson86.8
- TreVeyon Henderson88.2
- Corey Kiner
- QB
- Drake Maye96.0
- Tommy DeVito0.3
- Behren Morton
Defense
- OLB
- Dre'Mont Jones
- Gabe Jacas
- DT
- Christian Barmore
- Leonard Taylor III
- DT
- Cory Durden
- DaQuan Jones
- DT
- Milton Williams
- Joshua Farmer
- OLB
- Elijah Ponder
- LB
- Robert Spillane
- Darius Muasau
- Erick Hunter
- LB
- Christian Elliss
- Namdi Obiazor
- CB
- Carlton Davis III
- Channing Canada
- S
- Craig Woodson
- Mike Brown
- Elliott Davison
- S
- Kevin Byard III
- Jaylen Reed
- Brenden Schooler
- CB
- Marcus Jones
- Charles Woods
- CB
- Christian Gonzalez
- Karon Prunty
- Kindle Vildor
Special Teams
- K
- P
- Mitch Wishnowsky
- H
- Mitch Wishnowsky
- LS
- Julian Ashby
- PR
- Marcus Jones
- DeMario Douglas27.9
- KR
- Kyle Williams17.5
- Corey Kiner
Full roster
13 of 65 rated| # | Player | Pos | Ht | Wt | Age | Exp | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active52 | |||||||
| Offense | |||||||
| 10 | Drake MayeRated | QB | 6-4 | 225 | 24 | 3 | North Carolina |
| 15 | Behren Morton | QB | 6-2 | 218 | 24 | R | Texas Tech |
| 16 | Tommy DeVitoRated | QB | 6-2 | 210 | 28 | 4 | Illinois |
| 9 | Corey Kiner | RB | 5-9 | 209 | 24 | 2 | Cincinnati |
| 32 | TreVeyon HendersonRated | RB | 5-10 | 202 | 24 | 2 | Ohio State |
| 38 | Rhamondre StevensonRated | RB | 6-0 | 227 | 28 | 6 | Oklahoma |
| 1 | A.J. BrownRated | WR | 6-1 | 226 | 29 | 8 | Mississippi |
| 3 | DeMario DouglasRated | WR | 5-8 | 185 | 25 | 4 | Liberty |
| 18 | Kyle WilliamsRated | WR | 5-11 | 190 | 23 | 2 | Washington State |
| 86 | Efton Chism IIIRated | WR | 5-10 | 198 | 25 | 2 | Eastern Washington |
| 36 | Cameron Latu | TE | 6-5 | 244 | 26 | 3 | Alabama |
| 82 | Eli RaridonRated | TE | 6-6 | 245 | 22 | R | Notre Dame |
| 84 | Tanner Arkin | TE | 6-4 | 262 | 23 | R | Illinois |
| 85 | Hunter HenryRated | TE | 6-5 | 249 | 31 | 11 | Arkansas |
| 66 | Will Campbell | T | 6-6 | 319 | 22 | 2 | LSU |
| 68 | Dametrious Crownover | T | 6-7 | 319 | 25 | R | Texas A&M |
| 74 | Caleb Lomu | T | 6-6 | 313 | 21 | R | Utah |
| 76 | Morgan Moses | T | 6-6 | 320 | 35 | 13 | Virginia |
| 77 | Ben Brown | C | 6-5 | 313 | 28 | 4 | Mississippi |
| 55 | Jared Wilson | OL | 6-3 | 310 | 23 | 2 | Georgia |
| 65 | Matt Pryor | OL | 6-7 | 345 | 31 | 9 | TCU |
| 72 | Walter Rouse | OL | 6-6 | 314 | 25 | 3 | Oklahoma |
| Defense | |||||||
| 93 | Leonard Taylor III | DL | 6-3 | 305 | 24 | 3 | Miami |
| 90 | Christian Barmore | DT | 6-5 | 315 | 27 | 6 | Alabama |
| 92 | Joshua Farmer | DT | 6-3 | 312 | 23 | 2 | Florida State |
| 94 | Cory Durden | DT | 6-4 | 305 | 27 | 2 | North Carolina State |
| 97 | Milton Williams | DT | 6-3 | 290 | 27 | 6 | Louisiana Tech |
| 99 | DaQuan Jones | DT | 6-4 | 320 | 34 | 13 | Penn State |
| 5 | Dre'Mont Jones | LB | 6-3 | 268 | 29 | 8 | Ohio State |
| 14 | Robert Spillane | LB | 6-1 | 234 | 30 | 8 | Western Michigan |
| 48 | Namdi Obiazor | LB | 6-3 | 229 | 24 | R | Texas Christian |
| 49 | Erick Hunter | LB | 6-2 | 225 | 23 | R | Morgan State |
| 50 | Gabe Jacas | LB | 6-4 | 261 | 22 | R | Illinois |
| 53 | Christian Elliss | LB | 6-2 | 231 | 27 | 5 | Idaho |
| 54 | Darius Muasau | LB | 6-1 | 230 | 25 | 3 | UCLA |
| 91 | Elijah Ponder | LB | 6-3 | 261 | 24 | 2 | Cal Poly |
| 0 | Christian Gonzalez | CB | 6-1 | 205 | 24 | 4 | Oregon |
| 7 | Carlton Davis III | CB | 6-1 | 200 | 29 | 8 | Auburn |
| 21 | Karon Prunty | CB | 6-1 | 192 | 24 | R | Wake Forest |
| 22 | Charles Woods | CB | 5-11 | 185 | 26 | 3 | SMU |
| 25 | Marcus Jones | CB | 5-8 | 188 | 28 | 5 | Houston |
| 28 | Kindle Vildor | CB | 5-11 | 190 | 28 | 7 | Georgia Southern |
| 29 | Channing Canada | CB | 5-11 | 190 | 24 | R | Texas Christian |
| 4 | Craig Woodson | S | 6-0 | 200 | 25 | 2 | California |
| 23 | Jaylen Reed | S | 6-0 | 212 | 23 | 2 | Penn State |
| 27 | Elliott Davison | S | 6-0 | 200 | 24 | 1 | Texas-San Antonio |
| 31 | Kevin Byard III | S | 5-11 | 212 | 33 | 11 | Middle Tennessee State |
| 33 | Mike Brown | S | 6-1 | 218 | 27 | 4 | Miami (Ohio) |
| 41 | Brenden Schooler | S | 6-2 | 210 | 29 | 5 | Texas |
| Special teams | |||||||
| 8 | Andy BorregalesRated | K | 5-11 | 202 | 23 | 2 | Miami |
| 19 | Mitch Wishnowsky | P | 6-2 | 220 | 34 | 8 | Utah |
| 47 | Julian Ashby | LS | 6-1 | 231 | 24 | 2 | Vanderbilt |
| Reserve/Injured12 | |||||||
| 52 | Marcus Bryant | T | 6-7 | 320 | 24 | 2 | Missouri |
| 87 | Romeo DoubsRated | WR | 6-2 | 210 | 26 | 5 | Nevada |
| 44 | Reggie Gilliam | FB | 6-1 | 255 | 29 | 7 | Toledo |
| 80 | Julian Hill | TE | 6-4 | 251 | 26 | 4 | Campbell University |
| 13 | Mack HollinsRated | WR | 6-4 | 221 | 33 | 10 | North Carolina |
| 45 | Quintayvious Hutchins | LB | 6-3 | 245 | 23 | R | Boston College |
| 59 | Khalil Jacobs | LB | 6-1 | 227 | 22 | R | Missouri |
| 39 | Myles Montgomery | RB | 5-10 | 205 | 23 | R | UCF |
| 71 | Mike Onwenu | OL | 6-3 | 350 | 28 | 7 | Michigan |
| 24 | Dell Pettus | S | 5-11 | 200 | 25 | 3 | Troy |
| 70 | Greg Van Roten | OL | 6-3 | 305 | 36 | 12 | Penn |
| 75 | Alijah Vera-Tucker | G | 6-4 | 308 | 27 | 6 | USC |
| Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform1 | |||||||
| 2 | Harold Landry III | LB | 6-2 | 252 | 30 | 9 | Boston College |
Practice squad
0 of 17 rated| # | Player | Pos | Ht | Wt | Age | Exp | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practice Squad17 | |||||||
| Offense | |||||||
| 34 | Lan Larison | RB | 5-11 | 209 | 25 | 2 | UC Davis |
| 11 | Ryan Miller | WR | 6-2 | 217 | 26 | 3 | Furman |
| 81 | Chandler Brayboy | WR | 6-1 | 199 | 25 | 1 | Elon |
| 83 | Kyle Dixon | WR | 6-2 | 220 | 26 | R | Culver-Stockton |
| 88 | Cameron Dorner | WR | 6-1 | 188 | 22 | R | North Texas |
| 80 | Tanner Conner | TE | 6-3 | 240 | 28 | 4 | Idaho State |
| 61 | Lorenz Metz | T | 6-9 | 320 | 27 | 1 | Cincinnati |
| 67 | Andrew Rupcich | G | 6-6 | 325 | 27 | 2 | Culver-Stockton College |
| 63 | Jake Kubas | OL | 6-4 | 308 | 26 | 2 | North Dakota State |
| 64 | Xavier Newman-Johnson | OL | 6-2 | 297 | 27 | 4 | Baylor |
| Defense | |||||||
| 95 | Eric Gregory | DT | 6-3 | 319 | 26 | 2 | Arkansas |
| 98 | Jeremiah Pharms Jr. | DT | 6-2 | 300 | 30 | 3 | Friends U. |
| 35 | K.J. Britt | LB | 6-0 | 240 | 27 | 6 | Auburn |
| 42 | Benton Whitley | LB | 6-3 | 255 | 27 | 4 | Holy Cross |
| 43 | Jose Ramirez | LB | 6-2 | 252 | 27 | 1 | Eastern Michigan |
| 58 | Xavier Holmes | LB | 6-2 | 252 | 24 | R | James Madison |
| 26 | Al'zillion Hamilton | CB | 5-11 | 190 | 23 | R | Fresno State |
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