By ranking the players into five tiers, we can explore just how bare the cupboard is for the Patriots as free agency ...

It’s a new era in New England — again ... is now the franchise’s vision as they continue to rebuild, though the Patriots retained executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf ...

The real question is whether the Patriots target that receiver in the draft or go for the home run swing in free agency. And assuming Cincinnati Bengals wideout Tee Higgins makes it to free agency, he ...