The moment the New England Patriots acquired AJ Brown, the conversation changed from who can challenge the defending AFC champions to who can actually stop them.
The podium microphone was live, cameras rolling, and Drake Maye stood in front of the Patriots press corps like he’d done dozens of times before. Routine stuff.
After an incessant amount of talk inside the NFL about the Philadelphia Eagles trading wide receiver A.J. Brown to the New England Patriots, a deal is finally here.
The New England Patriots have had more than their share of distractions in the offseason. Head coach Mike Vrabel has been involved in an embarrassing situation that has seen his personal relationship with a well-known NFL journalist hit the news cycle and serve as fodder for the sports radio talk shows.
How many of the NFL quarterbacks to lead the league in passing touchdowns for each season since the AFL/NFL merger in 1970 can you name in seven minutes?
Yardbarker's best-of NFL positional series continues with linebackers. This does not cover pure pass-rushing threats -- we will get to them -- but rather true off-ball defenders who thrived as traditional inside and outside 'backers.
The New England Patriots made it all the way to the Super Bowl during the 2025-26 NFL season, so Mike Vrabel is obviously doing a lot of things right with this franchise.
Just as the Patriots added wide receiver A.J. Brown in a trade with the Eagles on Monday, they lost tight end Julian Hill for the 2026 season. The Pats have placed Hill on injured reserve, Doug Kyed of the Boston Herald relays.
Now that the saga is finally over and A.J. Brown has officially been traded, the rest of the dominoes might finally fall.
With the 2026 draft in the books, teams are already looking toward 2027. Here's our way-too-early 2027 NFL mock draft, as of April 27, 2026.
New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is lucky. He lost a No. 1 wide receiver earlier this offseason, but now his team has gifted him a new one.
For months, the worst-kept secret in NFL circles was that the New England Patriots would likely acquire Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown at some point after the end of May.
Jordan Schultz reports that the Patriots and Eagles have discussed a deal sending WR A.J. Brown to New England for a 2028 first-round pick.
The Eagles are widely expected to send Brown to the Patriots via a trade that can become official as soon as Tuesday.
Mike Vrabel avoided the kind of offseason nightmare no Patriots coach wants, because Rhamondre Stevenson’s scary Matt Rife collision could have been much worse.
The New England Patriots continue to prepare for the 2026 NFL season, where they will try to improve their 2025 campaign and win the Super Bowl. After a busy and tumultuous offseason, the AFC East team enters the new campaign with renewed expectations.
New England Patriots star defensive back Christian Gonzalez is currently staging a contract holdout, as he skips the voluntary Organized Team Activities (OTAs) for the first time in his career.
The New England Patriots are mourning the loss of legendary former head coach and Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver Raymond Berry, who passed away at the age of 93 on May 25, 2026, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The New England Patriots have been grabbing headlines for the wrong reasons in the offseason, and they nearly had another on Sunday, involving Rhamondre Stevenson.
The New England Patriots head into the 2026 offseason with plenty of attention on building their roster coming off a Super Bowl run. OTAs have given fans
Mike Onwenu’s reworked contract gives New England a cleaner 2026 cap picture, and the structure of the deal lines up with two of the biggest moves the team still has on its plate this offseason.
The podium microphone was live, the cameras locked in, and the New England Patriots’ head coach stood there looking like a man who’d spent the last month learning how to breathe again.
Christian Gonzalez was in attendance for the New England Patriots' voluntary offseason workouts earlier this offseason. He hasn't been a participant for the team's OTA practices though.
You can't have a New England Patriots offense under offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels without a productive fullback. Heath Evans, James Develin, Jakob Johnson.
Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez has not been present for the team’s recent voluntary work, including the Wednesday OTA session that was open to the media, as ESPN’s Mike Reiss relays.
Former New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo has a new job, and it has virtually nothing to do with football. Mayo has resurfaced as a member of private equity firm Fifth Down Capital, per Chris Mason of MassLive.
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