Welcome to the Friday Five!

Each week during the NFL regular season, I will drop five Patriots-related thoughts on Friday to recap the week that was in Foxboro and look ahead to kickoff.

Ready, set, football.

Back in March, Milton Williams was thiiiis close to becoming a Panther instead of a Patriot.

Williams hit free agency as a top target for both teams, fresh off a dominant Super Bowl run with the Eagles. Once free agency opened, initial reports suggested Williams was headed to Carolina. Instead, after whiffing on Ravens left tackle Ronnie Stanley and Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin, the Pats pushed all their chips in to land him.

Sure enough, a four-year, $104 million offer convinced one of the last remaining blue-chip talents to New England.

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