If you had to rank five people in the Patriots franchise who will have the greatest impact over the next decade, who would they be?

It's a question that editors at ESPNBoston.com asked for a "next decade" feature that is now running on the site. Readers can rank the choices themselves, as top-five lists are put together for the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox.

Putting together a top-five list like makes you think. I was tempted to put "2011 first-round draft choice from Oakland" as one of the options, but that seemed like a stretch.

So this is what I came up with: 1. Tom Brady; 2. Bill Belichick; 3. Robert Kraft; 4. Sebastian Vollmer; 5. Jerod Mayo. Explanations for the choices are part of a photo gallery.