The Patriots will end Justin Rohrwasser‘s tenure after one year. New England is waiving the 2020 fifth-round pick, Mike Reiss of ESPN.com tweets.
A standout college kicker, Rohrwasser did not kick in a game for the Patriots. The team used Nick Folk as its kicker last season, its first without Stephen Gostkowski since 2005, and re-signed Folk last week.
Ex-second-round pick Roberto Aguayo also resides on the Patriots’ roster, leaving little room for Rohrwasser. New England initially added Folk just before Week 1 last year, cutting Rohrwasser. However, the team brought him back via practice squad deal and retained the younger specialist on a reserve/futures contract. As of Tuesday afternoon, he is back on the waiver wire.
Folk, 36, made 93% of his field goal tries last season — a career-best mark — and received some guaranteed money to stay on as the Pats’ kicker.
Good, this is welcome news. That kid was a bum and should’ve never been drafted in the first place
Why is he a bum? Because you get your panties in a bunch over someone’s beliefs that differ from your. You’re the bum
He’s a bum because he had a tattoo of a violent, dumb, racist group’s logo. It’s a little more than having beliefs that ‘differ’, and I don’t know why you’re so sensitive to someone calling this bum out for it. Even Rohrwasser himself apologized and covered it up.
Get over yourself and stop playing the race card! It’s easy to be a victim! It’s hard to be an adult!
He’s a bum because he was a bad kicker lol and wasnt worth a 5th round pick. Who said anything about his beliefs? Sounds like your panties are in fact in a bunch.
Kind of rude to call this kid a bum when
1. You were never drafted
2. You probably couldn’t kick a field goal to save your life
lmao so no one can criticize or critique anything unless they’ve not only done it, but done it more successfully than whoever they’re critiquing? May as well shut down every single sports site and show on earth then.
Clearly you missed my point entirely that it’s easy for keyboard warriors to call someone a bum when this “bum” kicker would most likely put this guy on his a$$.
@deal1122 yeah and Rohrwasser was drafted and could kick a field goal yet him and I are in the exact same place. Hate to tell you he’s a bum. Whoops i said it again.
I don’t know if he was a bum if he never kicked a FG in the NFL. His beliefs are secondary to that. His tattoo controversy means that he’ll likely not get a chance to let us see if Rohrwasser was any good, but one of two things are true: either the Pats were going to give him a chance to prove his ability and he was not any good, or the Pats decided that his tattoo controversy was not worth it. It’s their right in any case, but the fact that they had so many kickers available makes me think that Rohrwasser wasn’t great. Of course, that begs the question as to why they picked him in the fifth, but hey, Aguayo was a second rounder, so you never know.
Waste of a fifth round pick. Should have drafted Blankenship in the 7th round.
I think we all can agree here.