{"id":874060,"date":"2026-04-25T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874060\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:30:17","slug":"experts-react-to-patriots-2026-nfl-draft-day-2-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874060\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts react to Patriots 2026 NFL Draft Day 2 Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Galko, Director of Football Ops &#8211; The Shrine Bowl: #Patriots fans, you landed one of the most complete tight ends in the 2026 NFL Draft in Eli Raridon. Haling from one of the best TE-developing programs in Nore Dame, he&#8217;s both a high-end blocker and receiver as a Y-Tight end. As a 6&#8217;6 tight end and a 98% athlete, he finished 4th in Yards per catch among P5 TEs last year. Showed it at the Shrine Bowl too. Impact, complete tight end for the #Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Galko, Director of Football Ops &#8211; The Shrine Bowl: #Patriots fans, you landed one of the most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[90,508,32697,7,23926,1263,1264,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-874060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-draft-tracker-card","10":"tag-eli-raridon","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-gabe-jacas","13":"tag-hp-article","14":"tag-hp-featured","15":"tag-new-england","16":"tag-new-england-patriots","17":"tag-newengland","18":"tag-newenglandpatriots","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-nfl-draft","21":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116463234200942855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874060","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=874060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}