{"id":286676,"date":"2025-08-14T05:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/286676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T05:46:12","slug":"patriots-offensive-lineman-jared-wilson-named-as-nfl-draft-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/286676\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots offensive lineman Jared Wilson named as NFL draft steal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\/348\" data-autotag=\"04de4087-8f54-4765-a468-9b4c74f7fb14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New England Patriots<\/a> may have found a foundational piece along their offensive line in the 2025 NFL draft. The Patriots drafted <a href=\"https:\/\/ugawire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Bulldogs<\/a> center <a href=\"https:\/\/ugawire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/bulldogs\/football\/2025\/08\/04\/georgia-football-rookie-jared-wilson-first-team-reps-patriots\/85479839007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Wilson<\/a> with the No. 95 pick (third-round) in the draft.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson appears to have a different role in the New England. He is already getting first-team reps with the Patriots&#8217; offensive line, which struggled a season ago. Wilson&#8217;s athleticism and pass protection ability should help the Patriots do a better job of protecting second-year quarterback Drake Maye.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson is competing with former first-round pick Cole Strange for a starting guard spot. He&#8217;s already impressed his coaches and teammates. Bleacher Report&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25233155-9-nfl-rookies-already-looking-draft-day-steals-ahead-2025-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristopher Knox<\/a> thinks that Wilson is already looking like an NFL draft steal.<\/p>\n<p>New England drafted LSU offensive tackle Will Campbell in the first round, but Jared Wilson could also end up as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jared Wilson has been a pleasant surprise for New England,&#8221; said Knox. &#8220;He was listed as a third-string center on the team&#8217;s first unofficial depth chart. However, he&#8217;s impressed enough in camp to challenge for a starting job (at right guard).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots have two preseason games left before their Sept. 7 regular season opener against the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>Follow UGAWire on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ugawire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.com\/@ugawire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots may have found a foundational piece along their offensive line in the 2025 NFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,265,630,318,339,324,19,995,833,207,7,629,4844,20842,981,1983,2939,248,267,206,249,88,6,15,245,537,208,530,326,25414,21400,1602,1982,9,266,376,790,1980],"class_list":{"0":"post-286676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bulldogs","11":"tag-college","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-conference","14":"tag-draft","15":"tag-drake","16":"tag-drake-maye","17":"tag-england","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-georgia","20":"tag-georgia-bulldogs-football","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-louisiana","23":"tag-louisiana-state-tigers-football","24":"tag-maye","25":"tag-national","26":"tag-national-sports","27":"tag-new","28":"tag-new-england-patriots","29":"tag-news","30":"tag-nfl","31":"tag-nfl-draft","32":"tag-overall","33":"tag-overall-positive","34":"tag-patriots","35":"tag-positive","36":"tag-sec","37":"tag-sec-conference-football","38":"tag-sec-hub","39":"tag-smg","40":"tag-smg-timely","41":"tag-sports","42":"tag-sports-news","43":"tag-state","44":"tag-tigers","45":"tag-timely"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286676","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=286676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}