Author: Evan Lazar

Evan Lazar is the New England Patriots beat reporter for CLNS Media.
Lazar: Ranking the Patriots’ UDFA Class By Likelihood to Extend 18-Year Streak of Making Initial Roster
Thanks to Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s equal opportunity approach, New England is riding an 18-season streak of an undrafted…
How Patriots’ Tyquan Thornton Learned to Control His ‘Superpower’ to Become Top NFL Prospect
The Patriots have a well-documented history of failing to draft and develop wide receivers. Earlier this week, New England declined…
The Six Degrees of Separation That Led Patriots Third-Rounder Marcus Jones to New England
The Patriots are usually unpredictable in the NFL Draft, but then there are picks like Houston’s Marcus Jones. New England…
The Patriots under head coach Bill Belichick have never cared about mine or your mock drafts. Over the last two…
Evaluating a draft class before seeing the players on an NFL field is a flawed exercise. We don’t know what…
Film Review: Patriots Select CB Jack Jones, RB Pierre Strong and QB Bailey Zappe in Fourth Round
The Patriots kicked off day three of the 2022 NFL Draft by making a trio of selections in the fourth…
The Patriots addressed a glaring need on the defensive side of the ball by selecting Houston cornerback Marcus Jones with…
The Patriots continued to march to the beat of their own drum by selecting Baylor speedster Tyquan Thornton with the…
After a Strange first round for the Patriots in the NFL Draft, New England will reset its draft board with…
Lazar: Patriots First-Rounder Cole Strange Might Be a Stud Guard, But it Won’t Move the Needle in Loaded AFC
The Patriots initially did exactly what we all expected in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft. New England…