The New England Patriots’ season is nine weeks old and the reigning world champions

Infant Yodny Cajuste Jersey , who are currently 8-1, can finally enjoy a weekend off. This gives us here at Pats Pulpit time to take a look back and analyze the half-season that was — and hand out same awards along the way. Today, the trophy for Offensive Most Valuable Player gets handed out.Bernd Buchmasser: QB Tom BradyJulian Edelman has proven throughout the first nine weeks of the season that he is a valuable part of the Patriots’ operation, and certainly deserving of being named Offensive MVP. However, Tom Brady is still the one cog that makes the entire machine run — and he does so despite a changing cast of characters around him, and behind an offensive line that has had considerable ups and downs.Oliver Thomas: WR Julian EdelmanEdelman stands just 11 receptions away from his abbreviated 2018 regular season Yodny Cajuste Jersey Draft , and at age 33, the Super Bowl LIII MVP is on pace for a career-high 112 receptions for 1,178 yards and seven touchdowns. He’s been the intended target on 90 of New England’s 338 pass attempts this fall.Alec Shane: OG Joe ThuneyIn an offense that has been constantly in flux and searching for consistency, Thuney has been the one constant on a battered O-line.Slot Machine Player: WR Julian EdelmanI’m going Julian Edelman here because he’s getting the majority of defensive attention and is still moving the chains.Matthew Rewinski: QB Tom BradyBecause I will grind this axe until the point is no longer factually and statistically accurate, Tom Brady’s on pace for another Tom Brady 4500-yard, somewhere-around-30-touchdown season. Shoutout to Ted Karras Yodny Cajuste NFL Jersey , though, who started the season filling in for a team captain on short notice and has actually turned into one of PFF’s better-graded centers lately. Not to mention vast improvements snapping the ball.Pat Lane: WR Julian EdelmanEveryone knows he’s the main option, and yet he’s still on pace for the most receptions and receiving yards of his career.Who gets your vote for Offensive MVP? Let us know in the comments! New England also has plenty of draft capital for next year."After the dust had settled on the 2019 NFL draft, the New England Patriots welcomed ten new players to their team — a deep and promising rookie class for a club that won the Super Bowl just three months earlier. The champions were able to assemble one of the league’s better evaluated draft hauls in large part because of the number of draft picks they held at the start of the event, and the flexibility it gave Bill Belichick and company.As a result, New England was able to address both its most pressing needs and add considerable depth across the board. And don’t be surprised if next year was more of the same: including trades and compensatory draft picks Yodny Cajuste NFL Draft , the club is currently projected to own thirteen selections in the 2020 draft:As can be seen, the Patriots are in line to have plenty of ammunition available for next year’s draft even. One big reason for that are the compensatory draft picks: after losing their seven unrestricted free agents this year — including standout defender Trey Flowers and starting left tackle Trent Brown — New England is expected to be awarded the maximum four extra selections next. The team, of course, also received four compensatory picks in 2019.This, in turn, sets the team up well once again to move up and down the board Yodny Cajuste Buffalo Bills Jersey , and to potentially do what it has not quite done over the weekend: invest a high-round draft choice in a quarterback (despite picking Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham in the fourth round this year). Whether or not a passer will ultimately be chosen remains to be seen, but from the current perspective the Patriots will again be in a comfortable position to do that or anything else they please to do.After all, New England will have a lot of draft capital at its disposal not just in terms of volume but also when it comes to value. If converted from the list above to Rich Hill’s draft value chart — using current odds to project where each team will end up picking (hint: the final pick of round one once more for the Patriots) — New England is currently entering the 2020 draft cycle with a combined 425.71 points worth of draft selections.For comparison, the Patriots had 527.53 points available before the draft this year, which ranked 19th league-wide. The 425.71 projected points for 2020 would have put the team in the 24th spot this year. But despite the drop in ranking — which is only natural considering the positioning at the end of each round — New England is still once again expected to be in a position to add considerable talent to its roster a year from now.The more things change, the more they stay the same.