Matt Chatham

the center, but center had been a real problem two seasons ago for the Patriots.

So Garrett's sort of like the insurance and not a super high dollar insurance at that state of his career.

And then, you know, Jared Davis can come in and, you know, oh gosh, he looks like he maybe has the flexibility to play another position while Garrett sort of stabilizes things.

But then you see, you know, Jared himself had a little bit of rough play, you know, down the stretch.

And you might just look at your offseason thing and go, hey, you know what?

He may be more comfortable with his old position.

And it's great to have a guy on a rookie contract as opposed to even a not so expensive guy that came here as a free agent.

So they also have another guy on the roster named Ben Brown, who was an undrafted free agent.

I know rosters love this guy.

When you eventually find a guy that in his second and third season starts to sort of the competency, especially in times of other injuries where he steps in and plays at the same level, kind of give you the confidence that, hey, man, we don't need to go spend a first or a second or high dollar free agency to find our left guard.

Maybe we have him and Jared can slide over to center.

And that makes a guy like Garrett a little more expendable.

So I think it generally isn't just, you know, it's fit on particular roster.

Maybe more valuable as another team than it is to your particular situation here.

I think the thing that you would want from the defensive side of the ball looking back across is a center that gets overwhelmed by push.

If any nose over him or any tackles, can pocket push and really put him into the pocket so you know you're always going to be flushed.

But if you're solid up front and you don't get into confusion element, and I think that's something that when you want, I think Caleb Williams is probably more of the guy you don't want leaving the pocket.

You'd love to close the phone booth around him.

So you just don't want a guy who blows calls.

you know, from the center position, any kind of confusion about who's coming and who's not, that can often be on his plate.