A recent report indicated the Patriots were looking to upgrade their offensive line this offseason by targeting Green Bay Packers pending free agent left tackle Rasheed Walker.<\/p>\n
Asked about potential interest in Walker at the NFL Combine on Tuesday, Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf shot the report down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw that report. And it\u2019s not true,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cHe\u2019s under contract with the Packers right now. And the two teams that were linked with that particular player both drafted left tackles in the first round last year, so I\u2019m not sure how accurate that would be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, Wolf acknowledged offensive tackle is an area the team must address.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs offensive tackle a need, you know, Vederian [Lowe\u2019s] a free agent. Thayer [Munford] is a free agent and Morgan [Moses] is 35 years old,\u201d he said. \u201cHe played awesome this year, but he\u2019s 35 years old. So, tackle would be a need for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Moses expected back for 2026, the Patriots will return him and Will Campbell as their starting tackles next season.<\/p>\n
After being selected No. 4 overall in last year\u2019s draft, Campbell started 13 regular-season games, missing five weeks due to a MCL injury. Returning from injury in this playoffs, Campbell struggled \u2014 specifically in Super Bowl LX as quarterback Drake Maye was under heavy pressure.<\/p>\n
That performance restarted conversations about Campbell\u2019s future at left tackle. However, head coach Mike Vrabel reinforced his belief in Campbell following the season, naming the 23-year old his team\u2019s left tackle.<\/p>\n
Wolf shared a similar sentiment on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecifically, when he came back from that injury, I personally didn\u2019t see the same level of lower body strength that you saw before the injury,\u201d Wolf said. \u201cI think the film [showed] that, like he probably had three of his four worst games in the playoffs. But before that, I thought Will played really well out here.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know everyone talks about the arm length, but he has a set of skills that enable him to play with that arm length. He\u2019s really quick out of his stance. He\u2019s technically sound. He\u2019s adding more and more different pass sets to his tool bag that he can use to combat different rushes. And again, he\u2019s 22 years old, and we expect some improvement out of him as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent report indicated the Patriots were looking to upgrade their offensive line this offseason by targeting Green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,52113,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-773826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-first-read","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116127074060827453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773826","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=773826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}