{"id":22833,"date":"2025-05-04T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/22833\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:54:12","slug":"patriots-do-not-pick-cole-strange-in-2022-nfl-re-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/22833\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots do not pick Cole Strange in 2022 NFL re-draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New England Patriots<\/a> made a controversial decision in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft; they picked Chattanooga guard Cole Strange at No. 29 overall. Earlier this week, they decided to decline Strange\u2019s fifth-year contract option after three up-and-down seasons.<\/p>\n

With Strange having yet to live up to his draft status, tit is no surprise that the Patriots are going in a different direction in a recent 2022 re-draft<\/a> from SB Nation\u2019s James Dator and J.P. Acosta.<\/p>\n

29. New England Patriots: George Karlaftis, EDGE<\/p>\n

Original Pick: Cole Strange, OG<\/p>\n

Karlaftis plays a big role in how the Chiefs win up front, a hard charging pass rusher with heavy hands. The Patriots need to restock on their defensive line, and Karlaftis would bring a lot of power to that front.<\/p>\n

Karlaftis has played in 49 regular season and 10 playoff games since joining the Kansas City Chiefs 30th overall, registering a combined 32.5 sacks. Strange, meanwhile, started the first 27 games of his career at left guard before suffering a torn patellar tendon that kept him out of the lineup for more than a year; he only returned to the field in December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots made a controversial decision in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft; they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7791,3396,19,7,723,1167,249,727,1096,2326,2094,6,15,813,208,724,187,725,9190,5912],"class_list":{"0":"post-22833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-cole","9":"tag-do","10":"tag-draft","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-new-england-patriots-draft","16":"tag-new-england-patriots-social-media-video-podcasts","17":"tag-newengland","18":"tag-newenglandpatriots","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-draft","21":"tag-not","22":"tag-patriots","23":"tag-pats","24":"tag-pick","25":"tag-pulpit","26":"tag-re","27":"tag-strange"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114448961845046036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}