Report: Patriots Place Another Rookie Tight End On IR, Release 2020 Draft Pick

The Patriots have placed yet another rookie tight end on IR and waive their 2020 draft pick. The Patriots are doing everything they can to get back on the right track after a very disappointing start to the season. It seemed like it was going to be a pretty exciting season for the Patriots with Cam Newton at the helm.

But that is not how it turned out. And a lot of that had to do with the COVID situation that is going around. Cam Newton was the first to come down with the virus and had to sit out a game. Bill Belichick talked about this recently.

“Today’s an important day in our preparation for the Broncos,” Belichick said. “We’ve had several days now of virtual meetings between the staff members and from the staff to the players. We’ve been able to cover a lot of things, but we haven’t spent any time together, so today’s our opportunity to do that. We look forward to that. One thing that we’ve learned this year repeatedly has been we have to be ready to adjust and adapt to changes and modifications and the way we do things and, in some cases, decisions that really come down to a very short amount of time that we have to be ready to adjust to.

“So we’re certainly taking things day by day — probably hour by hour would be more accurate. We’ll just see how we progress and then as we find out more on our end, or if there are other things externally that we can’t control that, then we’ll deal with those as they come. That’s the way it’s been all year. I think our team and our players have done a good job of handling those adjustments, and we’ll continue to do that.”

Report: Patriots Place Another Rookie Tight End On IR, Release 2020 Draft Pick

But things are going down again. The Patriots on Tuesday put Dalton Keene on the injured reserve list. He and another tight end Devin Asiasi are both on the IR now.

Injuries and coaches decisions have limited Keene to just two games this season. He sat out New England’s first two games with a neck injury, the last two with a knee injury and three more as a coaches decision.

The tight ends for the Patriots have only caught an NFL-low 10 passes in eight games this season. And that is considering Izzo has nine of them.

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