Report: Patriots Elevate Receiver From Practice Squad For Panthers Matchup

The Patriots have elevated a receiver from the practice squad for the Panthers matchup on Sunday. The Patriots are looking for their third straight win this weekend against the Carolina Panthers. It should be a win if everything goes to plan as the Patriots are the better team on paper. But which team will show up? It seems like they are finally finding themselves and it should be a good game to prove that. But they are still missing some weapons that can make plays when needed.

The Patriots have decided to elevate Kristian Wilkerson from the practice squad for their matchup with the Panthers today. This will be his first time getting elevated this season and only the second time in his 2 year career in the NFL. He went undrafted from Missouri State in 2020 and has been on the Patriots practice squad for the entirety of his career. This is a good opportunity for him to get some quality playing time.

It is unclear what this means in regards to N’Keal Harry, who is listed as questionable on the injury report. It will be interesting to see if he is able to play today. The Patriots running game should be able to get a lot of yards against a poor Panther’s rush defense.

Report: Patriots Elevate Receiver From Practice Squad For Panthers Matchup

There has been a lot of talk surrounding the Patriots and whether or not they will pick up a free agent. Bill Belichick talked about this during his press conference.

“Yeah. We’ve done that before. We brought in [Aqib] Talib in the middle of the season. You’d have to evaluate any situation. I don’t really know any specifics to talk about, so at this point, there’s nothing to really talk about. We’d do anything we could to help our football team. We brought in James Harrison with one game to go in the season.”

He also talked about Matt Rhule, who he will be coaching against.

“I think Coach Rhule went into Temple and really established a level of toughness and kind of went in with a lot of local kids that were good football players. It kind of reminded me of what Coach [Wayne] Hardin did when he went there and kind of did the same thing. Coach Hardin had similar success. They went to a couple bowl games. I don’t know if they beat Penn State one year. They lost, 7-6, or something like that, but they played with the big boys and did a good job. It was a lot of local kids.”