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Oh, Henry! Patriots TE taking on greater roles In his first season with New England, tight end Hunter Henry is becoming a valuable addition to the Patriots offense. The Patriots have run the ball with middling success 3. Mason and company also afforded Mac Jones good protection in the Patriots' first two games before struggling against the Saints last weekend. A fourth-round pick in , Mason made a very good early impression and won the Patriots' starting left guard spot in his rookie season.
He switched to right guard the next season and that's where he has remained since, starting 86 games overall including all three this year. A little undersized at and pounds, Mason knows how to use his frame to stay low and consistently win the leverage battle with his opponent. A noted drive-blocker since his college days in Georgia Tech's run-heavy offense, Mason has plenty of strength to move defenders off the ball at the point of attack.
Last year, Pro Football Focus ranked Mason 50th on their list of the NFL's best players, feeling particularly bullish on the guard's powerful run blocking. New England's Mac Jones-led offense has yet to put up big numbers but at least has been able to move the chains, ranking 10th in the league with a third-down success rate of The Patriots' defense is off to a better start, ranking in the top six in yards per game, yards per play, passing yards per game and per play, interception percentage, sack percentage and first downs allowed.
New England's five picks are the third most in the NFL. Kicker Nick Folk has yet to miss on nine field goal tries and punter Jake Bailey is averaging Here are some more specific ways in which the Patriots have performed well during the first three weeks of the season:.
The Patriots' offense ranks in the 20s in points and yards allowed per game, as well as yards per play, rushing yards per game and per play and passing yards per game and per play. New England is also dead last on offense in the red zone, with a touchdown percentage of The defense is allowing In addition:.
As noted above, there are a lot of new players in key roles for the Patriots this year. We've already discussed Mac Jones and Matt Judon at length above but the pass-catching corps has been overhauled and the secondary got a new starter who is playing in place of one of the NFL's best defensive backs.
Following the retirement of Rob Gronkowski which didn't quite stick , the Patriots got nearly no production from the tight end spot in despite drafting two of them in the third round. Rather than wait for a possible emergence by either Devin Asiasi or Dalton Keene the Patriots instead went out and signed the top two tight ends on the market in the Chargers' Henry and the Titans' Smith. Henry has had injury issues throughout his career but has 21 touchdowns in 58 games and has averaged Smith had yards and eight scores for Tennessee last year.
CB Jalen Mills. Originally drafted in the seventh round by Philadelphia as a cornerback in , Mills played seven different positions in the Eagles' defense in When the Patriots gave him a four-year deal in March, he was seen as a versatile chess piece who could fit into a variety of roles in New England's secondary. As it turns out, the Patriots have needed him at cornerback because Defensive Player of the Year Stephon Gilmore has not yet returned from a quad injury suffered late last season.
WR Nelson Agholor. A former first-round pick by the Eagles, Agholor's five-year tenure in Philly could probably be considered underwhelming but he revived his value in one season with the Raiders, racking up yards and eight touchdowns and averaging Agholor hasn't popped that sort of big play for the Patriots yet, with 10 catches for yards, but he does have one of the team's two touchdown receptions. T Trent Brown. Brown is back for a second stint in New England after coming over in a trade with Las Vegas in March and he is the anchor of what was expected to be a very good offensive line.
However, he suffered a calf strain in the team's season opener and has not played since. I made a commitment to them and I want to live up to it. As if Brady returning to Foxboro wasn't juicy enough as a storyline, there's an extremely strong chance that he could make history again in Sunday night's game. After throwing for yards against the Rams, Brady now has 80, passing yards in his career.
That leaves him just 67 behind Drew Brees for the all-time NFL record, and given that Brady has averaged passing yards per game since joining the Bucs, the record might be his before the first quarter is over. Brady left New England for Tampa Bay after 20 seasons, nine Super Bowls and six championships, sharing the glory with Belichick for two decades. After Brady joined the Buccaneers and eventually won his seventh Super Bowl ring, the Patriots turned first to former Panthers star Cam Newton to take over under center in After a seasons, New England drafted Alabama quarterback Mac Jones in the first round and, after a preseason competition, picked the rookie to take over the reins.
Through three games, Jones has thrown for yards, one touchdown and three interceptions, with all of his picks coming in Week Three against the Saints. The Patriots will be moving forward with Jones, hoping to find another long-term starter like they did with Brady in
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