{"id":874118,"date":"2026-04-25T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:00:59","slug":"caleb-lomu-taken-28th-overall-by-new-england-patriots-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/874118\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Lomu taken 28th overall by New England Patriots in NFL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 University of Utah tackle Caleb Lomu is headed to New England after being taken by the Patriots with the 28th overall pick in Thursday&#8217;s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two seasons, Lomu started 24 games at left tackle for Utah and was named First-Team All-Big 12 Conference following the 2025 season, in which he allowed just two sacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to NFL scouting, Lomu is considered &#8220;very athletic&#8221; with displays &#8220;good quickness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lomu chose Utah over offers from Michigan and USC out of high school, and starred with the Utes after redshirting his freshman year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 University of Utah tackle Caleb Lomu is headed to New England after being taken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,1599],"class_list":{"0":"post-874118","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-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-patriots","15":"tag-utah"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116463592005910358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874118","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=874118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}