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Draft update: Patriots trade up Color Rush Chase Winovich Jersey , draft P Jake Bailey with the 163rd pick"WhitePatriots News Opinion and Analysis Contribute! FanPostsFanShotsAbout the Site List of Patriots Twitter AccountsWrite For Pats Pulpit!New User Welcome and Commenting GuideCommunity GuidelinesMastheadTopics Patriots Off-Season CoveragePatriots Opinion/AnalysisPatriots NewsPatriots Draft CoverageSportfolio ManagementNFL DraftPatriots Opinion/AnalysisPatriots 2019 NFL Draft Coverage2019 NFL Draft: 4 reasons why the Patriots drafted Stanford P Jake BaileyNew,19commentsDraft update: Patriots trade up, draft P Jake Bailey with the 163rd pick EDTShareTweetShareShare2019 NFL Draft: 4 reasons why the Patriots drafted Stanford P Jake BaileyChuck Cook-USA TODAY SportsThe New England Patriots selected Stanford punter Jake Bailey with the 163rd overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft. The Patriots have been trying to move on from Ryan Allen for the past couple of seasons and Bailey is just another move to improve the New England’s special teams unit.Here’s why the Patriots selected Jake Bailey.Bailey is extremely versatilePossibly the biggest reason for the Patriots to take Bailey was his versatility at Stanford. Not only did he carry the traditional punter and holder roles, he also was responsible for kickoffs. As Stephen Gostkowski heads down the final few years of his career Youth Chase Winovich Jersey , the Patriots could shift some of the kicking responsibilities to Bailey and allow Gostkowski to focus on field goals and extra points. Pats Pulpit reacts to the Jake Bailey pickSubscribe to the Pats Pulpit podcast for more draft reactions!Bailey was one of the best punters in the countryBailey was named All Pac-12 in each of the past three seasons and is Stanford’s all-time career punting leader. He was named Second Team All American in each of the past two years by Pro Football Focus. He might not have the two Ray Guy awards that Ryan Allen earned as the best punter in college football, but Bailey is highly competitive.Ryan Allen is inconsistentAllen had the game of his career in Super Bowl 53, but for much of his career he’s been an average punter. New England tried to find Allen’s replacement with Corey Bojorquez last offseason, but were unable to stash him on the practice squad. Bailey is yet another competitor for Allen’s job.The fifth round picks are meant for special teamersNo one should blink if a fifth round pick doesn’t make the roster Womens Chase Winovich Jersey , so the Patriots can hold an open competition between Allen and Bailey and have the best player make the roster. While the New England Patriots lead the NFL in victories eight weeks into the regular season after winning all of their games so far, they find themselves near the bottom of the league in terms of salary cap space: the reigning world champions entered the day of the trade deadline with $2.4 million available, according to the Boston Sports Journals’ Miguel Benzan, a comparatively low number at this point in time.As a result of their salary cap situation Authentic Chase Winovich Jersey , the Patriots are limited in their options with the trade deadline coming up at 4:00 pm — something that head coach Bill Belichick acknowledged during a media conference call on Tuesday morning (via the Boston Globe’s Nora Princiotti): “We wouldn’t have enough cap space right now to just go out and acquire any player [...] There are some players we just wouldn’t be able to do that with.”Belichick also went on to say that if a contract was going to be altered by a player’s existing team to make him a more attractive commodity on the trade market, such a move already had to happen to become official before the deadline. If the Patriots, for example, were to acquire Washington Redskins offensive tackle Trent Williams they would have to release a player before making the trade in order to create the cap space needed to fit him in.Even though $2.3 million still gives New England some wiggle room to operate with the trade window closing Chase Winovich Jersey Boys , Belichick pointed out that the team would also need to keep some potential future expenses in mind with the season only eight weeks old. This does, of course, not rule out a trade being made within the next four hours but it certainly shows that a major acquisition will likely not be on the menu for the Patriots.