Building in: Mayo’s Patriots Rebuild Centers Around Players Who Can Be…
The New England Patriots return to Gillette Stadium this week where they’ll welcome the Indianapolis Colts to town.
For anything not covered on Pats Pulpit throughout the week, let’s take a look in this week’s Sunday Patriots Notes.
Finding answers
Before the Patriots stepped on the field this season, head coach Jerod Mayo knew this year was about laying a foundation for hopeful winning seasons in the near future. Part of that included finding out which young players New England could count on following this season.
With five games remaining in the Patriots 2024-25 season, Mayo has a few players left that he and the organization want to learn more about.
“I would say, not to get too specific, but I will. You need a guy like Layden Robinson to show what he can do. We need a guy like Cole Strange before the end of the season to see what he can do. You can use Caedan [Wallace] in that same bucket. We need to see what the receivers can do and what they’re going to look like going forward,” Mayo said Friday.
“And that’s the hard part for me. Look, you want to win right now, but at the same time, I think it would be a disservice to go to the end of the season and not know exactly what we have.”
That process will start on Sunday, where rookie Layden Robinson is expected to draw the start at left guard. It will mark the first start for Robinson since Week 9 — where he then reverted to the bench mid-game — and first at left guard.
