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Getty Images The Patriots have a perfectly good center, but they have invested in the position anyway. Via Ben Volin of the Boston Globe, the Patriots have guaranteed $70,000 to undrafted rookie center Tyler Gauthier. Gauthier, from Miami, got a $10,000 bonus and $60,000 in guaranteed salary...

Getty Images The Patriots and Rams faced each other in Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta a couple of months ago, but they worked together in the second round of the NFL Draft. New England dealt the 56th and 101st picks to the Rams in order to acquire the 45th overall pick in the draft. They used the...

Getty Images Two weeks ago, we noted that Patriots coach Bill Belichick was wondering who could cover all the big receivers coming into the NFL these days. Belichick may have just drafted the answer to his question. In the second round of the draft, the Patriots traded up to draft Vanderbilt...

Getty Images Tom Brady will be 42 in August. The other three quarterbacks in his division are 65, combined. The team that has dominated the AFC East, winning it every year except one since 2003 and 10 in a row, will be facing in 2019 a trio of quarterbacks who arrived in the NFL via the first...

Getty Images Bill Belichick has his (backup) quarterback. The Patriots used its second fourth-round pick, No. 133rd overall, on Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham. With Brian Hoyer as Tom Brady‘s backup, the Patriots wanted a young quarterback to groom. They did the same thing with Jimmy...

Getty Images Bill Beilchick had a surprise pick up his sleeve in the fifth round of the draft. The Patriots selected Stanford punter Jake Bailey. It’s a surprise any time a punter is drafted, and it was particularly surprising that the Patriots traded up in the fifth round to get Bailey. Also...

Getty Images A Foxborough man who pleaded guilty to pawning rare coins stolen from the house of former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski has been sentenced to probation. According to the Associated Press, Eric Tyrrell has been sentenced to two years of probation for receiving...

Getty Images Last year, the draft saw five quarterbacks selected in round one, for the first time since 1999. And there continues to be a very good chance that five quarterbacks will be drafted in the first round tonight. The four mostly-sure-fire first-round picks are Kyler Murray, Dwayne...

Getty Images N'Keal Harry‘s prognosticating skills were spot on. Harry didn’t think he’d be drafted lower than the 33rd overall selection. He was correct as the New England Patriots selected him with the 32nd and final pick of the first round. Harry racked up 2,889 yards and 22 touchdowns...

Getty Images If the Cardinals were hoping to hustle up a market for Josh Rosen, the first round of the 2019 NFL Draft did them no favors. After the Giants took Duke quarterback Daniel Jones sixth overall and Washington went with Dwayne Haskins 15th, the list of potential destinations got...

Getty Images Given how long he’s been in New England, there aren’t a lot of firsts left for the Patriots under Bill Belichick but they crossed one of the list on Thursday night. The Patriots took a wide receiver in the first round of the draft for the first time in the Belichick era when they...

Getty Images When Jets linebacker C.J. Mosley was asked about head coach Adam Gase’s first message to the team at offseason workouts, Mosley said it centered on doing something the AFC East hasn’t gotten done for two decades. Mosley said “one of the main reasons” Gase came to the Jets was to...

Getty Images Another court ruling on Tuesday ensured that prosecutors in Florida will not be allowed to release to the public a video of Patriots owner Robert Kraft engaging in alleged sex acts at a massage parlor. Judge Leonard Hanser blocked the tape’s release last week on a temporary basis...

Getty Images Get ready. Sooner or later, and maybe sooner than later, a surveillance video showing Patriots owner Robert Kraft engaged in sexual activity at a Florida day spa will be released to the public. Although a judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the release of the video, the video...

Getty Images No one knows Josh Gordon‘s status for the 2019 season, but he’s officially under contract to the Patriots. Gordon, the extremely talented receiver whose drug addiction has derailed his career, signed his one-year tender offer with the Patriots, Field Yates of ESPN reports. That...

Getty Images Sure, this is a football website. But we appreciate the skills and abilities required to play hockey. And NBC holds comprehensive hockey video rights. And we include playoff hockey highlights in PFT Live. And last night’s games were compelling enough to justify putting the hockey...

Getty Images To commemorate the league’s 100th season, the NFL will be naming the top 100 players of all time, but not in any specific order. Incoming Hall of Famer Gil Brandt disclosed some of the names of the people who served on the panel, which convened last year for a full-day meeting and...

Getty Images With legalized gambling slowly spreading from sea to shining sea, odds will emerge for just about anything. Now that the 2019 schedule has been released, odds have been set regarding the last team to be unbeaten. Based on odds from the DraftKings Sportsbook, via Darren Rovell, the...

Getty Images Patriots coach Bill Belichick just turned 67, and there is no indication he’s interested in stopping anytime soon. But if you look at his peer group (the best coaches in NFL history), you also realize he’s already an outlier, in terms of how long he’s done it. As noted by Peter...

Getty Images It recently has become unfashionable to be extremely wealthy, due apparently to a stew of political attitudes and ideas that see fairly-and-squarely-accumulated wealth as a target for quick-and-easy redistribution. But billionaires still have rights, even if our new resent-the-rich...