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Draft week has officially arrived. The 2022 NFL Draft kicks off Thursday night in Las Vegas, and this year's event should be quite the spectacle. There's already talk of potential trades both up and down the board, while several top-flight wide receivers could be taken in the first round. Our Phil Perry has been all over the draft beat with several first-round mock drafts, Patriots-specific mock drafts and crowd-sourced mock drafts. But with the event right around the corner, Perry got some help from his friends, teaming up with fellow Patriots Insider Tom E. Curran and NBC Sports Boston analyst D.J. Bean for a three-person, first-round mock draft on a new episode of the Next Pats Podcast.