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Getty Images Patriots fullback James Develin was not a superstar during his seven seasons in New England, but Bill Belichick considers him among the best he’s coached. Belichick said after Develin announced his retirement today that everyone in the facility knew how much Develin contributed...

Getty Images NFL teams have until May 4 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET to exercise fifth-year options on 2017 first-round draft choices. The window to sign those players to contract extensions opened Dec. 30, with Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey becoming the first to get a new deal. Some of...

Getty Imagea Contained within the NFL’s annual effort to sell hope to 32 fan bases was an observation from one coach who believes that two thirds of those fan bases are wasting their time. Saints coach Sean Payton, appearing on the NFL’s Draft-A-Thon, said something publicly that plenty of NFL...

Getty Images New Patriots kicker Justin Rohrwasser says he intends to get a tattoo removed from his forearm that bears the symbol of a far-right militia movement and paramilitary group. In an emotional interview with Steve Burton of WBZ-TV in Boston, Rohrwasser expressed regret for a tattoo he...

Getty Images Devin McCourty is heading into his 11th season, so there’s a couple of ways he could have reacted to the Patriots choosing a safety with their first pick in the NFL Draft. One of those ways would be to see Kyle Dugger’s arrival as a move designed to push him out the door in the...

Getty Images Marshall kicker Justin Rohrwasser became a fifth-round pick of the Patriots on Saturday. His introductory teleconference included a subject that usually doesn’t come up during these types of sessions. Rohrwasser has a tattoo on this left forearm that matches the logo of the Three...

Getty Images The Patriots didn’t draft a quarterback this week and head coach Bill Belichick said in a post-draft conference call that the team would be signing an undrafted rookie to go with Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer. Agent Mike McCartney announced that his client Brian Lewerke has...

Getty Images The Patriots have cut defensive lineman Keionta Davis, Jeff Howe of TheAthletic.com reports. Davis, 26, signed his exclusive rights tender in March. He spent last season on injured reserve. Davis originally signed with the Patriots in 2017 out of Tennessee-Chattanooga. He spent...

Getty Images It took until the fifth round, but we have a kicker off the board in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Patriots selected former Marshall kicker Justin Rohrwasser with the 159th overall pick. The move comes a little more than a month after the Patriots released Stephen Gostkowski and New...

Getty Images The Jets had Lac Edwards, a seventh-round choice in 2016, as their punter the past four seasons. But after a 45.9 yards average, which ranked 15th in the NFL, and a 41.6 net, which ranked 12th, the Jets decided not to re-sign him. They have Ian Berryman on their roster, but after...

Getty Images Twenty-two years after Randy Moss became the 21st pick in the draft, his son went undrafted. Thaddeus Moss, LSU tight end, wasn’t selected during the seven rounds of the 2020 draft. According to Adam Schefter, Randy’s colleague at ESPN, Thaddeus Moss has signed a free-agent deal...

Getty Images The Patriots selected 10 players in the 2020 NFL draft, and despite the departure of Tom Brady, a quarterback was not one of them. Bill Belichick says that’s just the way the team’s draft board fell. “If we feel like we find the right situation, we’ll certainly draft them. We’ve...

Getty Images The Patriots traded out of the first round on Thursday night, which left them with five picks in their pocket on Friday night. They used the first one to take safety Kyle Dugger. Dugger played at Division II Lenoir-Rhyne, which had not had a player drafted by an NFL team since the...

Getty Images The Patriots made another trade. Surprise. Surprise. New England traded with the Ravens, moving up in the second round. The Patriots traded the 71st and 98th choices to Baltimore in return for picks No. 60 and No. 129. The Patriots selected Michigan outside linebacker Josh Uche...

Getty Images In January, the Packers learned the hard way that a team with a great running game will beat a team with an all-time great quarterback in a single-elimination setting. So instead of using their first three picks to bolster the run defense or to give their all-time great quarterback...

Getty Images The Patriots chose to trade out of the first round on Thursday night, so they’ll have to wait until Friday night to add some rookies to the roster. It appears they got a veteran back in the fold, however. Center David Andrews didn’t play at all in 2019 because of blood clots in...

Getty Images It’s been an offseason of losses for the Patriots, most notably Tom Brady, and in the first round of the draft the Patriots didn’t fill any of the holes on their roster. Tonight, that changes. The Patriots have the most draft capital remaining in the final six rounds of the draft...

Getty Images Like father, not like son. In 1999, cornerback Antoine Winfield entered the league as the 23rd pick in the draft. On Thursday night, Antoine Winfield Jr. was not selected in round one. Some believe he should have been. Naysayers would say that the Big 10 defensive back of the...

Getty Images The rules apparently don’t apply to #Tommy. Earlier this week, the folks in Tampa tiptoed around new Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady‘s violation of Florida’s stay-at-home order by simply asking him to leave a closed public park, while also bending over backward to make it clear...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski held his first press conference Wednesday, a day after his official return to the NFL. It was a hello to Tampa Bay. On Thursday, the Pro Bowl tight end said good-bye and thank you to the Patriots and their fans in an Instagram post. “First and foremost, I want to...