The New England Patriots are looking down the barrel of the task to find the next heir apparent to Tom Brady this offseason at the NFL Draft. One of the names that's starting to bubble up to the surface in that hunt is West Virginia's Will Grier. He has met with the Patriots during the pre-draft process and does have some attributes that New England covets at the position.

He's extremely accurate completing 67-percent of his passes last season for 3,864 yards, 37 touchdowns and just eight interceptions. He's also proven to come up big in the high pressure moments as he was able to upset Texas in Texas this past year. At the NFL Combine, Grier even pointed out that he and the Mountaineers coaching staff adopted some of the Patriots offense into their own.

“Honestly, Jake Spavital, my OC at West Virginia, watched a lot of Patriots film and built our offense off a lot of what they (do),” Grier said, via NESN.com. “Obviously, different terminology, but we would see stuff and be like, ‘We’re going to do that.’ Tom Brady does all right. So, we watched a lot of Tom Brady film.”

He added: “In 2017, we were very wide-spread oriented, which is kind of what Spav brought to the game from other places he’s been. It’s different. A lot what we did with the Patriots was we saw they were doing a lot of tighter split stuff, and they were getting free releases with guys, working isolations and different routes all the way across the field.

“You get a little bit more isolation when you bring guys tighter in. You don’t always get pressed up in that look. It’s been interesting to kind of watch how they get guys open underneath. A lot of guys in the Big 12 are in quarters, or they’re in cloud coverage, deep coverage. It’s hard to get guys open underneath, so we watched a lot of their film and kind of picked different things they were doing to get guys open underneath.”

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The Patriots have 12 draft picks in all heading into the 2019 NFL Draft and six of them are inside the top-101, which gives them plenty of opportunity to try and land Grier somewhere in the second or third round. That chance to work behind Brady in Foxboro as his eventual successor would be something that Grier would absolutely embrace.

“I don’t think you can really put into words the kind of opportunity,” Grier said. “The opportunity to learn from a guy like that would obviously be priceless.”