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They would never carry nor would I expect all of those players to be on the gameday roster. Depending on the gameplan I think 5 would be though. Today we carried Slater, Dobson, Amendola, Collie, Edelman. Im essentially dropping Collie and saying that Slater should never see the field on offense. I think its important going foreword for this team to stop putting so many eggs in one basket. At this point I don't think we should run lots of any single set. I think its a bad idea to run with a rookie TE and Gronk and expect lots of 2-TE's sets. Having 9/46 players be WR's and TE's especially with a player like Beckham playing on st.
My point is that you don't have enough snaps to carry that many on the 53, let alone the 46.
Except where injuries might have forced them to do so (rather than IR a player prematurely) the Pats have carried 5 WRs + Slater (e.g., this week, it was Edelman, Amendola, Collie, Dobson, Thompkins).