N’Keal Harry will begin his third season with the Patriots on Sunday. The team intends to activate the former first-round pick from IR, Field Yates of ESPN.com tweets.
Teams playing Sunday have until 4pm CT Saturday to arrange their Week 4 rosters, and Harry will soon be on New England’s. He missed the first three weeks of the season with a shoulder injury but will return after missing the minimum amount of time.
The Arizona State alum will return to a reconfigured Pats skill-position corps but one that has not yet found its footing. Offseason addition Nelson Agholor has just 110 receiving yards in three games, while New England’s new tight ends — Jonnu Smith and Hunter Henry — have also not been major factors in the passing game early. Former UDFA Jakobi Meyers leads the Patriots in receiving (176 yards).
Harry requested a trade this offseason, but the Pats did not move in that direction. The 6-foot-4 wideout has not panned out thus far, totaling 45 receptions for 414 yards in two seasons. Harry has also missed 14 games through two seasons and change due to injury. It is unclear what Harry’s role will be, but he represents another potential weapon for the team as Mac Jones‘ run begins.
The Pats also elevated linebacker Jahlani Tavai and defensive back Myles Bryant from their practice squad. New England picked up Tavai, a former Lions second-round pick, shortly after his late-summer Detroit exit.
That’ll save the season
This should help their running game and D and knowing Bill he’ll probably trade Gilmore now
Now that Tom’s gone I’m starting to see a lot of holes in his abilities he’s starting to look more like the Browns Bill not the past 20+yrs (and I know a lot of you clowns will bring up his scandals)
You’re forgetting that the Patriots lost a lot more than Tom last year. Belichick should have known better than to sign Agholor, but Henry and Smith should prove useful in the coming years-at least one should. I don’t see Bill retaining all of these signings in the next two years-even as expensive as that would be, I think he just wanted as many veterans as possible to help whomever his new starter was going to be. Belichick knew he was going to select a rookie this past draft (I don’t think he expected that rookie to take over immediately), and threw as much money as possible at the offense to help out while he figured out the defense.
Make no mistake, that defense is in transition-as long as Brady was there, the transition was held off, but between age and contract status this situation had been building for some time. The Pats’ roster two years from now is going to look much, much different than it does today. Belichick has a lot of positions to figure out and Brady leaving was just one part of it.
And his crappy drafts is the major part and every team will look different in 2 yrs that’s just a stupid defense to Bill’s major mistakes that’s y this team is where it’s at