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Getty Images The Patriots cut rookie receiver Will Hastings for the second time in a month, the team announced Friday. They originally signed Hastings as a rookie free agent on May 5, released him July 26 and re-signed him July 28. He was a college teammate of quarterback Jarrett Stidham at...

Getty Images Football on Sunday and football on Saturday are a little bit different, and Bill Belichick would like to change that. Belichick, the Patriots coach who always has a keen understanding of the rulebook, said this week that he’d like the NFL to adopt the college pass interference...

Getty Images Patriots head coach Bill Belichick doesn’t seem to think that there’s a competitive disadvantage to having fans at some NFL games and not at others, but there are adjustments that will have to be made due to the unusual circumstances of this NFL season. Belichick said “all that’s...

Getty Images Patriots coach Bill Belichick likes his defensive backs to be versatile, and one of their recent picks is working at a new position. According to Mike Giardi of NFL Network, second-year cornerback Joejuan Williams has been working with the safeties during training camp, taking all...

Getty Images Cam Newton is working hard to earn the starting quarterback job in New England. Teammate Jason McCourty says Newton is showing his work ethic with his presence, and that Newton gets to work early every morning and stays late every night. “Every morning you come in, and you walk...

Getty Images Jarrett Stidham‘s bid for the starting quarterback job with the Patriots took a hit recently thanks to a couple of poor days on the practice field and a hip injury that’s limited his reps in recent practices. Stidham’s workload ticked back up on Thursday, however. He threw more...

Getty Images Running back Sony Michel has been on the physically unable to perform list since the start of Patriots camp, but the third-year back’s condition has improved enough for him to get back on the active roster. Michel had foot surgery this offseason and continued to rehab during the...

USA TODAY Sports Here’s the final punctuation mark for a story from last week that, frankly, other events had caused us (me) to forget. Goldin Auctions pulled Michael Strahan’s Super Bowl XLII jersey in response to a dispute from Strahan regarding the authenticity of the jersey. The jersey...

Getty Images It has started to look like Cam Newton will be the Patriots’ starting quarterback this season, but Newton said on Wednesday that he is not ready to start thinking that way. Newton has been seeing more practice reps with the first team than Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer and...

Getty Images In recent days, a pair of Steelers veterans (cornerback Joe Haden and tight end Eric Ebron) have declared that rookie receiver Chase Claypool will be an all-caps “PROBLEM” in 2020. So which players league-wide will fall into that category? Simms and I did a Tuesday PFT Live draft...

Getty Images The Cowboys reportedly aren’t interested in safety Earl Thomas. Owner Jerry Jones, however, is rarely interested in closing doors. Appearing Tuesday on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, Jones didn’t rule out signing Thomas, at some point. Via Clarence E. Hill, Jr. of the Fort Worth...

Getty Images The Patriots have cornerback Stephon Gilmore back on the practice field. Gilmore missed four straight workouts for the team, which led to questions about whether physical or contractual matters might be keeping him from being in action. It turned out that neither of those things...

Getty Images The Patriots haven’t made any public announcements about their starting quarterback job, but things have been pointing in one direction of late and a social media post by wide receiver Julian Edelman won’t do anything to point away from Cam Newton getting that job. Newton is known...

Getty Images Word over the weekend was that the Patriots were set to sign kicker Nick Folk after he went through COVID-19 testing and a physical and that word was proven correct on Monday. The Patriots announced the addition of Folk along with the signing of rookie defensive lineman Michael...

Getty Images The Ravens were hoping to have fans at M&T Bank Stadium when the open the season against the Browns on September 13, but that won’t be the case. The team announced on Monday that they will not have any fans in attendance for the “initial part” of the 2020 season. There’s no word...

Getty Images Patriots cornerback Stephon Gilmore, the 2019 NFL defensive player of the year, has missed four straight practices. With no injury reporting obligations arising in the offseason, his status had been cloaked in mystery. Mystery solved, thanks to Phil Perry of NBCSportsBoston.com...

Getty Images Cam Newton is the favorite to win the Patriots’ starting quarterback job, but the Patriots are not ready to name him their starting quarterback. Jarrett Stidham, who is dealing with a hip injury, and Brian Hoyer remain in the competition. Newton, though, is the most accomplished...

Getty Images Cam Newton didn’t sign with the Patriots until July, which didn’t leave him much time to study the team’s offense before reporting to training camp later in the month. That left him behind fellow quarterbacks Brian Hoyer and Jarrett Stidham as they both have previous experience...

Getty Images After canceling their season because of COVID-19, the CFL is allowing players to opt out of their contracts, and one of their top quarterbacks is doing so. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Toronto quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson is opting out. Bethel-Thompson threw...

Getty Images The Patriots made safety Kyle Dugger a second-round pick this offseason and head coach Bill Belichick gave an update on his progress during a Monday video conference with reporters. Dugger is making the transition from Division II Lenoir-Rhyne to the NFL, which is a pretty big...