Breer maps out what it might cost for Patriots to trade for McLaurin

Buying and selling for Terry McLaurin would give a Patriots roster as soon as quick on playmakers one of many extra dynamic wideout groupings within the NFL.

However it received’t come low cost.

Regardless that the All-Professional receiver has requested a trade from the Commanders, Washington will doubtless demand a king’s ransom for any group eager to take the disgruntled star off their palms. 

Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer acknowledged final month that the Patriots would be “very interested” in buying McLaurin and establishing him as one among Drake Maye’s go-to receiving targets. 

However throughout Friday’s taping of “Early Version” of NBC Sports activities Boston, Breer acknowledged that the Commanders would need a number of belongings in return for McLaurin. 

“For any individual to offer the Commanders one thing that will entice them to maneuver, that group must worth [McLaurin] at a degree financially larger than the Commanders do, after which on high of that be prepared to offer him that contract and put draft capital into it,” Breer stated on Friday.

“So that you’d be speaking a few fairly excessive value from a draft choose standpoint, and I feel you most likely must embody an lively participant, too.”

By way of a possible package deal for McLaurin that New England might assemble, Breer stated that Stefon Diggs could possibly be a participant that the Commanders would possibly covet — contemplating that Washington nonetheless needs to have a star wideout in place to pair with a second-year QB in Jayden Daniels. 

“One thought I did have, and that is simply — I don’t need to see a ‘report’ on this or the rest — however if you happen to have been the Patriots, would you contemplate buying and selling Stefon Diggs and a second-round choose there?” Breer stated.

“For those who take a look at the thought of that, Stefon Diggs is from DC, proper? So that will be a homecoming for him. And it could give the Commanders some extra monetary flexibility with the contract that Stef has. It could give them the additional piece of draft capital. After which the Patriots would have a receiver which you could construct round for the subsequent few years.”

Even when the Patriots have been prepared to pay such a steep value for McLaurin, Breer believes that the Commanders will in the end preserve their high wideout in place — particularly after the veteran performed such a key function in Washington’s run to the NFC Championship Sport this previous season. 

“I feel it’s essential to recollect it is a group that feels prefer it’s in a championship window proper now,” Breer stated. “And if you happen to’re in a championship window proper now, you don’t need to be buying and selling one among your absolute best gamers and one of many guys you’ve constructed a whole program round for an asset that’s not going to offer you any assist till subsequent April.”

 

Conor Ryan is a workers author overlaying the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Pink Sox for Boston.com, a task he has held since 2023.